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.

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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.

More in English via SBS News.


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