Sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages and risk of liver cancer, chronic liver disease mortality

JAMA

2023-08-08

(Press-News.org) About The Study: Among 98,000 postmenopausal women, compared with consuming three or fewer servings of sugar-sweetened beverages per month, those who consumed one or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day had a higher incidence of liver cancer and death from chronic liver disease. Future studies should confirm these findings and identify the biological pathways of these associations.

Authors: Xuehong Zhang, M.B.B.S., Sc.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2023.12618)

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