Diet soda consumption linked with vacular event risk

United States, February 10, 2011

Drinkers of diet soda had a nearly 50% increased risk of vascular events, suggested new data.

“[This study] was motivated by previous research that has suggested a relationship between diet and regular soda consumption and the metabolic syndrome which is an important risk factor for vascular events,” said Hannah Gardener, ScD, epidemiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, and lead author of the study, in a press conference, later adding in an interview with CARDIOLOGY TODAY that she and fellow investigators “found a statistically significant increased risked of vascular events including stroke and heart attack among those who drank diet soda daily as compared with those who didn’t drink either diet or regular soda.”

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