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Two or more diet sodas a day increase risk of heart attach or stroke

daniwilford
daniwilford Posts: 1,030 Member
edited December 19 in Debate Club
Anyone have any thoughts on a new study from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association that diet drinks are increasing your risk of heart disease.
The study had over 80,000 postmenopausal women take part. It found that women who drank 2 or more artificially sweetened beverages each day were 31% more likely to have a clot-based stroke, 29% were more likely to have heart disease, and 16% of women were more likely to die from any type of cause.
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  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,742 Member
    edited February 2019
    Not quite "nothing means anything" - and granted, correlation can point out a relationship. Indeed, this is a major study over a long period of time, which would be significant.
    Still interested in knowing what else the women were consuming, though.
    I'm looking at this part of the abstract: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023100
    "In women with no prior history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus, high consumption of artificially sweetened beverages (≥2 ASBs/day) was associated with more than a 2-fold increased risk of small artery occlusion ischemic stroke hazard ratio =2.44 (95% confidence interval, 1.47–4.04.) High consumption of ASBs was associated with significantly increased risk of ischemic stroke in women with body mass index ≥30; hazard ratio =2.03 (95% confidence interval, 1.38–2.98)."
    Looks like the risks they mention here were both doubled. What were the risks in the folks with low consumption? Does this risk doubling mean a huge number more high consumers will have stroke?
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Yes, they are. :)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Is this one of those things like the whole processed meat and cancer thing where the %s sound all scary, but when you do the math your risk of cancer goes from 5% to 6%?
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
    Seems like everything causes something bad.
    Chances are there are other behaviors nnot accounted for when they do these studies.
  • ultra_violets
    ultra_violets Posts: 202 Member
    I'm still going to drink diet soda. It's my one bad habit. I don't drink alcohol or even coffee, and I don't smoke cigarettes, but I've got to have my Diet Mountain Dew. I'd like to cut way down or eventually even stop, but one battle at a time.
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