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Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is a major global driver of incident Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, with the highest proportional burdens found in Latin America/Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages to significantly lower your risk of Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease. This is especially critical if you live in or originate from regions with high SSB consumption like Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa, where the population-level risk is highest.
In 2018, 1.9 million (95% UI 1.8, 2.1) incident T2D cases and 877,858 (80,6455, 949,117) incident CVD cases were attributable to intake of SSBs worldwide. Latin America/Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest proportional SSB-attributable CVD and T2D incident cases.
Why this rating
Uses a comparative risk assessment model leveraging global data, meta-analyses, and prospective cohorts across 184 countries, though it is an observational modeling study rather than a randomized trial.
Source
Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Burdens Attributable to Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adults in 184 Countries
Laura Lara Castor et al. · Current Developments in Nutrition · 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103510
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