A recent study reveals that frequent consumption of sugar-sweetened soda contributes to an increased risk of death from any cause or due to breast cancer in women.
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Research used the data from the Western New York
Exposures and Breast Cancer Study and included 927 women with incident, invasive
breast cancer. All of them completed dietary recall using a food frequency
questionnaire to assess the frequency of sugar-sweetened soda consumption.
It was more than of the breast cancer patients died
(54.7%) over an average follow-up of 18.7 years, as established via the
National Death Index. Women who frequently drank sugary beverages were more
likely to have reduced survival compared with abstainers or those did not drink
sugary sodas.
By utilizing the multivariable cox proportional
hazards models, it revealed that comparing it with never/rarely sugar-sweetened
soda intake, consumption frequency of >5 times per week conferred an
increased risk of both total mortality and breast cancer-specific mortality.
With the subgroup analyses, the risk of total
mortality correlated with frequent sugar-sweetened consumption was evident
among ER-positive but not ER-negative patients, among women with body mass
index (BMI) above but not below the median, and among premenopausal but not
postmenopausal women.
According to researchers, the current data support the
existing guidelines to lower the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages,
including for women with a diagnosis of breast cancer.
Source: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
2021;doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-1242