Drinking many sugary drinks may increase the risk of fatal cancer, study finds Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention It was published on the 15th of the journal.
Marjorie McCullough’s team at the American Cancer Society (ACS) used data from a cancer prevention study to find a link between sugary drinks and all cancers, obesity-related cancers, and 20 types of cancer.
More than 934,000 cancer-free people followed participants from 1982 to 2016, when they provided information on beverage consumption.
The researchers found that by 2016, more than 135,000 participants had died of cancer.
The study found that participants who regularly drank sugar-sweetened beverages were associated with higher body mass index (BMI).
People who drank two or more sugary beverages daily were not associated with an increased risk of obesity-related cancer, whereas those who drank no sugar at all were not associated with any cancer deaths.
This was meaningless following adjusting for BMI.
Sugar-sweetened beverages were associated with increased deaths from colorectal and kidney cancers, which were still effective following BMI adjustments.
Participants who drank artificially added sugars had an increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer, even following adjusting for BMI.
“Consumption of sugary beverages is associated with higher mortality from certain cancers, in part due to obesity,” the researchers said. The association between consumption of artificial sugary drinks and an increased risk of pancreatic cancer requires further study.”
Future studies should consider the role of BMI in studies of seolcham drinks and cancer risk, he added.
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