Diet drinks increase risk of stroke: study

A study involving more than 80,000 women found that drinking two or more diet drinks a day increases the risk of stroke by 23 per cent.

The authors stress that the study found a link but could not prove that diet drinks cause strokes. Source: Pixabay

Two or more diet drinks a day increase the risk of stroke, heart disease and the likelihood of an early death, research suggests.

A large study involving more than 80,000 women found that drinking two or more diet drinks a day - including fizzy drinks and fruit-based diet drinks - increased the risk of stroke by 23 per cent.

Compared with women who consumed diet drinks less than once a week or not at all, women who consumed two or more artificially-sweetened drinks per day were also 29 per cent more likely to develop heart disease and 16 per cent more likely to die from any cause.

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