Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults
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Implication
Randomized trial examines added sugar's impacts on cardiovascular disease mortality in US adults, suggesting health risks.
Key Points
- To assess time trends in added sugar intake and its association with cardiovascular disease mortality in US adults.
- Analyzed data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) across multiple periods
- Evaluated CVD mortality in a prospective cohort with a median follow-up of 14.6 years
- Utilized age-, sex-, and race/ethnicity-adjusted models to assess hazard ratios (HRs) for added sugar consumption
- Average daily calories from added sugar rose from 15.7% to 16.8% and then fell to 14.9% over the study periods
- Adjusted HRs for CVD mortality increased significantly with higher added sugar intake, reaching 2.75 (95% CI, 1.40-5.42; P = .004) for the highest intake group
- Significant relationships persisted across different demographic groups except non-Hispanic blacks
Cite This Study
Yang et al. (2014) studied this question.