Researchers found that people who frequently drink sweetened fruit drinks or sodas may have a bigger chance of developing heart failure.
Lead author Susanna Larsson, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said that in the research conducted, Swedish men who drank two or more servings of sweetened beverages a day had a 23 percent increased threat of suffering a heart failure.
According to Larson, people who frequently take sweetened beverages should now think to reduce their consumption to reduce their chances of developing heart failure as well as obesity and type 2 diabetes and more likely other diseases too.
Meanwhile, Dr. Christopher O'Connor, director of the Heart Center at Duke University School of Medicine and editor-in-chief of the journal JACC: Heart Failure, said that sweetened drinks have been associated to diabetes, obesity, stroke and other health concerns, but so far insufficient consideration has been paid to the results of extreme sugar on heart health.
As reported by CBS News, the U.S. National Institutes of Health noted that heart failure takes place when the heart develops too weak to pump adequate blood to meet the body's needs. Patients tire quickly, suffer shortness of breath and generate fluid buildup in their feet, ankles and legs.
Nearly half of those identified persons with heart failure are still alive five years later, experts recorded in background material. More than 23 million people all over the world have heart failure, including approximately 5.8 million in the United States.
Soft drinks have been linked with a heightened risk in high blood pressure and heart disease, so it conforms that sweetened beverages might also increase the risk of heart failure, the researchers said.
The American Beverage Association reacted to the conclusion by drawing consideration to a new industry leadership intended at decreasing beverage calories in the American diet by 20 percent for every person by 2025.
