Preventing heart failure: sweetened beverages and healthy lifestyles


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A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by John R. Radford. ABSTRACT Apart from associations with


dental caries and erosion, there was a dose-response effect with the consumption of sweetened beverages and heart failure. MAIN Martínez-González MA, Ruiz-Canela M. _Heart_ 2015;101:


1935–1937. 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308426 The authors of this commentary drill into the substantive paper published in _Heart_ (_Heart_ 2015; doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307542). This


population-based cohort study, was carried out with over forty thousand men. After adjusting for confounders such as family history of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes,


smoking, BMI and some dietary factors, the risk of heart failure 'among participants consuming ≥2 servings (200 ml) per day was 23% relatively higher (95% CI 1.12 to 1.35) compared to


their non-consumer counterparts.' As background, in the UK there over half a million people living with heart failure with survival estimates of only 10% after 10 years. The findings of


this study however, are in contrast with the Cardiovascular Health Study that found no association. But then, this latter study included elderly participants with lower consumption of


moderate-to-high sweetened beverage consumption. It is conceded that sweetened beverages may comprise a component of a sub-optimal diet with a paucity, for example, of fruit and vegetables.


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