Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH
New study reveals fatal consequences of mock-swill habit
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News today calculated to disgruntle many a Reg reader – and some Reg hacks – as it has been revealed by boffinry that the daily glugging down of "diet" soft drinks increases the risk of "vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death".
"Our results suggest a potential association between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes," says Hannah Gardener of the Miami uni medical school.
The peril associated with daily downing of mock-pop was revealed in a study encompassing some 2,564 subjects selected from a "multi-ethnic urban population" in Manhattan. According to Gardener and her colleagues, drinking diet soft drinks less often isn't a problem.
The study also appeared to show that drinking regular full-sugar beverages wasn't particularly bad for you – at any rate in terms of vascular "outcomes" – though there are other US scientists who'd doubtless quarrel with any such assertion.
Beer, however, is definitely still OK – or coffee, although it is known to destroy the planet. Bottled water is a definite no-no.
Gardener does admit that the deadly effects of diet pop may not have been completely pinned down yet:
"The mechanisms by which soft drinks may affect vascular events are unclear," she admits, opening the door for such possibilities as heavy mock-pop drinkers tending to be unhealthy to begin with – or indeed the usual caveats attached to suspicious statistical work of this type.
Gardener and her fellow health-boffins' research is published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. ®
COMMENTS
Maybe...
Maybe they were drinking diet drinks because they were fatties* and that was the reason for an increase in vascular death?
*No offence intended, I'm also a fatty
Read The Friendly Abstract
Quoting from the linked abstract:-
"KEY RESULTS
Controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption, BMI, daily calories, consumption of protein, carbohydrates, total fat, saturated fat, and sodium, those who drank diet soft drinks daily (vs. none) had an increased risk of vascular events, and this persisted after controlling further for the metabolic syndrome, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes, cardiac disease, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia (HR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.06–1.94). There was no increased risk of vascular events associated with regular soft drinks or light diet soft drink consumption."
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