Sugar Substitutes Linked to Cardiovascular Disease

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Artificially Sweetened Drinks

"Records for 104,760 participants were included....Artificially sweetened beverages were defined as those containing non-nutritive sweeteners. Sugary drinks consisted of all beverages containing 5% or more sugar....Researchers looked at first incident cases of cardiovascular disease during follow-up from 2009-2019, which were defined as stroke, transient ischemic attack, myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and angioplasty. After excluding the first three years of follow-up to account for potential reverse causality bias, 1,379 participants had first incident cases of cardiovascular disease. Compared to non-consumers, both higher consumers of sugary drinks and of artificially sweetened beverages had higher risks of first incident cardiovascular disease, after taking into account a wide range of confounding factors..."

Artificially sweetened drinks may not be heart healthier than sugary drinks, Medical Xpress, October 27, 2020, research letter in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 

Sugar Any Better?

"Drinking one or more sugary beverages a day was associated with a nearly 20% greater likelihood of women having a cardiovascular disease compared to women who rarely or never drank sugary beverages, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association."

California study finds drinking sugary drinks daily may be linked to higher risk of CVD in women, Medical Xpress, May 13, 2020, by American Heart Association

Research on Sugar Beverages Triggering Rosacea

Do you think it is possible for a non profit organization for rosacea get its members to each donate one dollar to investigate whether or not sugar beverages or artificially sweetened drinks are a rosacea trigger in a double blind, placebo controlled, peer reviewed clinical study? It would take approximately 10K members to do this if the members wanted this. What do you think? Have you noticed whether drinking a sugar beverage triggers your rosacea?

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