Research

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Longer duration of exposure to high sugar availability is associated with higher diabetes prevalence, and reducing sugar availability is associated with subsequent declines in diabetes rates.

Sustained high sugar intake over years increases diabetes risk, and reducing sugar intake can lead to lower diabetes rates over time, even if obesity doesn't change immediately.

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Duration and degree of sugar exposure correlated significantly with diabetes prevalence in a dose-dependent manner, while declines in sugar exposure correlated with significant subsequent declines in diabetes rates independently of other socioeconomic, dietary and obesity prevalence changes.
Sanjay Basu et al. · PLoS ONE · 2013

Why this rating

Based on econometric modeling of longitudinal trends, not randomized trials.

Source

The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data

Sanjay Basu et al. · PLoS ONE · 2013

DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0057873

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