Soda and other beverages and the risk of kidney stones.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Not all fluids may be equally beneficial for reducing the risk of kidney stones. In particular, it is not clear whether sugar and artificially sweetened soda increase the risk.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We prospectively analyzed the association between intake of several types of beverages and incidence of kidney stones in three large ongoing cohort studies. Information on consumption of beverages and development of kidney stones was collected by validated questionnaires.

Results

The analysis involved 194,095 participants; over a median follow-up of more than 8 years, 4462 incident cases occurred. There was a 23% higher risk of developing kidney stones in the highest category of consumption of sugar-sweetened cola compared

SUBMITTER: Ferraro PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3731916 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature