More Proof Soft Drinks Tied to Diabetes

More Proof Soft Drinks Tied to Diabetes

By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: April 24, 2013
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco


One can -- or one more can -- of soda daily significantly increased the risk of diabetes in a European population, researchers found.

Consuming an additional 12 ounces of sugar-sweetened beverages -- a standard size can of soda -- daily was associated with a 22% (95% CI 1.09 to 1.38) increased risk for diabetes, and an extra can of artificially-sweetened beverage put the risk 52% higher (95% CI 1.26 to 1.83), according to Dora Romaguera-Bosch, PhD, MSc, of Imperial College London in England, and colleagues at the InterAct consortium.

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