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Reuters--Sweet drinks have been linked to a slightly higher risk ofdeveloping high blood pressure, but a U.S. study finds that fruitsugar may not be the culprit as found in earlier research. Researchers followed more than 200,000 men and women for up to 38years and found that regularly consuming sweetened drinks, eithercontaining sugars or artificially sweetened, was associated with arise of about 13 percent in the risk of developing high bloodpressure. Carbonated and cola drinks were most strongly linked to a risk forhypertension, but fruit sugar, or fructose, in drinks did not standout as a driving factor, the group reported in the Journal ofGeneral Internal Medicine. We don't know what causes the increased risk in artificial- orsugar-sweetened beverages, said Lisa Cohen, lead author of thestudy and a researcher at the University of Maryland MedicalCenter. It's hard to say that from the fructose itself you're increasingyour hypertension risk. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week proposed a ban onlarge-size sugary sodas, the latest in a string of public healthinitiatives that include a campaign to cut salt in restaurant mealsand packaged foods. Earlier studies had implicated fructose as a factor related to arisk of high blood pressure, but Cohen noted that those have onlytaken a snapshot in time and could not determine which came first,the high blood pressure or taste for sweet drinks. Cohen and her colleagues looked at data from three massive studies,including nearly 224,000 healthcare workers, whose diet and healthwere tracked for 16 to 38 years. No participants had diagnosed highblood pressure at the start of the study. Over time, those whodrank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a 13 percentincreased risk of developing hypertension relative to those whoonly had a sweet drink once a month or less. Similarly, people who drank at least one artificially sweeteneddrink a day had a 14 percent increased risk of developinghypertension relative to those who had few or none. To see if it was the fructose that was responsible, researchersalso looked at people who had high levels of fructose in theirdiets from other sources, such as fruits. Among people who consumed 15 percent of their calories fromfructose sources other than drinks, the risk of developinghypertension was either lower or the same as people who ate verylittle fructose. You would think if fructose were the causative factor, theneating a lot of apples (for example) would also increase your riskof hypertension, Cohen told Reuters Health. The markedly stronger link between carbonated sweet drinks andincreased hypertension risk might be explained by the largerserving sizes associated with sodas, or some other unknowningredient common to all of them, the researchers said butfurther research is needed. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Audi Evaporator , Audi Condenser, and more. For more , please visit Honda Evaporator today!
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