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Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and incident hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohorts

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Jayalath, Viranda H, de Souza, Russell J, Ha, Vanessa, Mirrahimi, Arash, Blanco-Mejia, Sonia, Di Buono, Marco, Jenkins, Alexandra L, Leiter, Lawrence A +5 more·2015·The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Background The role of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) that contain free or bound fructose in the pathogenesis of hypertension remains unclear.Objective We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies to quantify the association between fructose-containing SSBs and risk of hypertension.Design MEDLINE, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and the Cochrane registry were searched from conception through 11 November 2014. Two independent reviewers extracted data and assessed the quality of studies (with the use of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale). Risk estimates of extreme quantiles of SSB intake (lowest compared with highest) for hypertension incidence were generated with the use of generic inverse-variance methods with random-effects models and expressed as risk ratios with 95% CIs. Heterogeneity was assessed with the Cochran Q statistic and quantified with the I(2) statistic.Results Six prospective cohort studies (n = 240,508) with 79,251 cases of hypertension observed over ≥3,197,528 person-years of follow-up were included. SSB consumption significantly increased the risk of developing hypertension by 12% (risk ratio: 1.12; 95% CI: 1.06, 1.17) with evidence of significant heterogeneity (I(2) = 62%, P = 0.02) when highest [≥1 serving (6.7, 8, or 12 oz)/d] and lowest (none) quantiles of intake were compared. With the use of a dose-response analysis, a significant 8.2% increase in risk of every additional SSB per day from none to ≥1 SSB/d (β = 0.0027, P < 0.001) was identified. Limitations include unexplained heterogeneity and residual confounding. The results may also have been subject to collinearity effects from aspects of a Western dietary pattern.Conclusions SSBs were associated with a modest risk of developing hypertension in 6 cohorts. There is a need for high-quality randomized trials to assess the role of SSBs in the development of hypertension and its complications. This study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01608620.

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Jayalath, V. H., de Souza, R. J., Ha, V., Mirrahimi, A., Blanco-Mejia, S., Di Buono, M., Jenkins, A. L., Leiter, L. A., Wolever, T. M., Beyene, J., Kendall, C. W., Jenkins, D. J., & Sievenpiper, J. L.
Affiliations
  • St. Michael's Hospital (CA)
  • McMaster University (CA)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Sievenpiper, John L
Venue
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-10
Volume
102
Issue
4
Pages
914-921
ISSN
0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2164655298
Cited by
167
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 18
FWCI
2.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (129920)
  • Canada-wide Human Nutrition Trialists’ Network
  • Diet, Digestive tract, and Disease (3D) Centre
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation
  • The Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Ontario Research Fund
  • Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
  • Ontario Graduate Scholar
  • CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award
  • Government of Canada
  • PSI Foundation Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship
  • Canadian Diabetes Association Clinician Scientist Award
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Sodium Intake and Health
Keywords
sugar-sweetened beverages, hypertension, fructose, hypertension incidence, dose-response relationship, beverage consumption, Western dietary pattern, residual confounding
MeSH terms
Beverages, Fructose, Humans, Hypertension, Risk Factors, Incidence, Databases, Factual, Nutritive Sweeteners

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