Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Approximately 65% of adults in the US consume sugar-sweetened beverages daily.

Objective

To study the associations between intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and incidence of liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective cohort with 98 786 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative from 1993 to 1998 at 40 clinical centers in the US and were followed up to March 1, 2020.

Exposures

Sugar-sweetened beverage intake was assessed based on a food frequency questionnaire administered at baseline and defined as the sum of regular soft drinks and fruit drinks (not including fruit juice); artificially sweetened beverage intake was meas

SUBMITTER: Zhao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410478 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature