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Sugar-sweetened beverage, diet soda, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease over 6 Years: the framingham heart study

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Park, William Y., Yiannakou, Ioanna, Petersen, Julie M., Hoffmann, Udo, Ma, Jiantao, Long, Michelle T.·2022·Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Background & aims Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption in cross-sectional studies. In a prospective cohort, we examined the association of beverage consumption (SSB and diet soda) with incident NAFLD and changes in hepatic fat in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS).Methods We conducted a prospective observational study of participants from the FHS Third Generation and Offspring cohorts who participated in computed tomography sub-studies. Participants were classified according to their average SSB or diet soda consumption, which was derived from baseline and follow-up food frequency questionnaires: non-consumers (0-<1/month), occasional consumers (1/month-<1/week), and frequent consumers (≥1/week-≥1/day). Hepatic fat was quantified by the liver fat attenuation measurements on computed tomography scan. The primary dependent variable was incident NAFLD; secondarily, we investigated change in liver fat.Results The cohorts included 691 Offspring (mean age, 62.8 ± 8.2 years; 57.7% women) and 945 Third Generation participants (mean age, 48.4 ± 6.3 years; 46.6% women). In the Offspring cohort, there was a dose-response relationship with SSB consumption and incident NAFLD. Frequent SSB consumers had 2.53 times increased odds of incident NAFLD compared with non-consumers (95% confidence interval, 1.36-4.7) after multivariable analysis. For Offspring cohort participants, occasional and frequent consumers of SSB had a more adverse increase in liver fat compared with non-consumers.Conclusions Higher average SSB intake is associated with increase in liver fat over 6 years of follow-up and increased odds of incident NAFLD especially among the older cohort, whereas no consistent association was observed for the younger Third Generation cohort.

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Authors
Park, W. Y., Yiannakou, I., Petersen, J. M., Hoffmann, U., Ma, J., & Long, M. T.
Affiliations
  • Boston University (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Long, Michelle T.
Venue
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2022-11
Volume
20
Issue
11
Pages
2524-2532.e2
ISSN
1542-3565 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3212545769
Cited by
53
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 5
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5.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Boston University (UL1 TR001430)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (75N92019D00031, HHSN268201500001, N01-HC-25195)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K23 DK113252)
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (2019085)
  • Gilead Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
Keywords
sugar-sweetened beverages, diet soda, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, liver fat, beverage consumption, dose-response relationship, Framingham Offspring cohort
MeSH terms
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Diet, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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