Drinks with Artificial Sugar May Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk, Claims Study
The consumption of sugary drinks has increased worldwide in the last decades; according to the Global Burden of Disease. A previous study suggests that sugary drinks increase the risk of overall cancer and breast cancer. However, a recent study found that artificial sugary drinks do not raise the risk of breast cancer. The study findings were published in The Journal of Nutrition on June 10, 2021.
Artificially sweetened beverages were initially envisioned as a healthier alternative. However, they are associated with a higher incidence of hypertension, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Besides, some artificial sweeteners were suggested to increase glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota. Whether consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) or artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs) is associated with the risk of breast cancer is of public health interest. Therefore, Dr Andrea Romanos-Nanclares and her team conducted a study to evaluate associations between consumption of SSBs and ASBs and risks of total and subtype-specific breast cancer.
In this present study, researchers evaluated 82,713 women from the Nurses' Health Study (1980 to 2016) and 93,085 women from the Nurses' Health Study II (1991 to 2017). They identified a total of 11,379 breast cancer cases during 4,655,153 person-years of follow-up. They used Cox regression models to test the association between cumulatively averaged intakes of SSBs and ASBs from food frequency questionaries (FFQs) with incident breast cancer cases and subtypes. They further evaluated the associations stratified by menopausal status, physical activity, BMI, and alcohol intake.
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