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Two Soft Drinks a Day ‘Doubles Diabetes Risk’
Drinking more than 2 soft drinks a day doubles the risk of developing two types of diabetes, a study in the European Journal of Endocrinology has found.
Researchers say this applies to soft drinks that are artificially sweetened as well as those containing sugar
Types of Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the condition in which a person’s blood sugar (glucose) levels become too high because their body can’t produce or use insulin properly.
Type 1 diabetes is less common and occurs when special cells in the pancreas are mistakenly destroyed by the body’s immune system, meaning that insulin can’t be produced. This autoimmune disease usually starts in childhood.
There is, though, a third type of diabetes called Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood (LADA). It shares some of the characteristics of type 1 and some of the characteristics of type 2 – and for that reason it is sometimes referred to as type 1.5 diabetes.
It is estimated that LADA is found in between 6% and 10% of diabetes cases. However, this may be as high as 25% of cases in people diagnosed with diabetes under the age of 35.
The researchers found that people who drank 2 or more 200ml glasses of soft drinks a day were 2.4 times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those who did not drink these beverages.
Also, this amount of soft drinks doubled the risk of developing LADA.
SOURCES:
Sweetened beverage intake and risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and type 2 diabetes, J Löfvenborg et al, European Journal of Endocrinology
Press release, European Society of Endocrinology
Diabetes.co.uk
Science Media Centre
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