Studies on sugary soft drinks follow one another and all confirm that they are bad for your health. This new Japanese study claims that sodas would increase the risk of dying from cardiac arrest.
Researchers at the University of Fukuoka in Japan conducted a large-scale study of 800,000 Japanese to understand the health impact of consuming sugary soft drinks.
After adjusting risk factors (weight, alcohol and tobacco consumption, family history), the scientists compared the number of cardiac arrests or not to the consumption of soft drinks between 2005 and 2011.
“Until now, the link between the consumption of high-dose carbonated drinks and these fatal cardiovascular diseases or cardiac arrests that occur outside of hospital has not been clear,” explains Professor Saku.
They listed 435,064 (55.4%) cardiac arrests and 350,527 (44.6%) non-cardiac origin arrests (cerebrovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, tumours, etc.).
“Our soft drink consumption figures are obtained from soft drink budget and the association with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests is not causal, explains Professor Saku. “However, our results indicate that limiting soft drink consumption is still beneficial.” “The drinks consumed can have an impact on fatal cardiovascular diseases. The acidity of soft drinks may play an important role in this association”, concludes Professor Keijiro Saku.
These new findings provide yet another good reason not to drink sodas. Indeed, sodas and sugary drinks are responsible for the onset of type 2 diabetes, regardless of the weight of the person according to the results of a study by researchers from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) published in the journal British Medical Journal.
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