(PO22-23-22) Is There a Sweet Spot of Added Sugar Consumption for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention?

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Presenting Author(s)

Suzanne Janzi, MSc nutrition science
– Doctoral student, Lund University, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden

Co-Author(s)

EG

Esther González-Padilla
– Lund University
SR

Stina Ramne
– University of Copenhagen
SB

Sara Bergwall
– Lund University
LJ

Linda Johnson
– Lund University
YB

Yan Borné
– Lund University
ES

Emily Sonestedt
– Lund University

Disclosure(s):

Suzanne Janzi, MSc nutrition science: No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Objectives: Little is known about the role that added sugar consumption plays in development of cardiovascular disease, as there is a lack of studies investigating the long-term effects of added sugar intake as well as studies of overall added sugar intake rather than sugar-sweetened beverages only. In this study we investigated the associations between intake of added sugar and various sugar-sweetened foods and beverages and cardiovascular disease risk.

Methods: Diet and lifestyle assessments were carried out in 1997 and 2009 in a total of 69,705 participants from The Swedish Mammography cohort and Cohort of Swedish men. National registers were used for outcome ascertainment.

Results: Added sugar intake is linearly associated with ischemic stroke and abdominal aortic aneurysm (p-trend < 0.01) and non-linearly associated with heart failure, aortic stenosis, and atrial fibrillation, whereas no associations were found between added sugar intake and hemorrhagic stroke nor heart failure. Intake of treats and toppings are negatively associated with most of the studied outcomes whereas positive linear associations were found between sweetened beverage intake and ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, and abdominal aortic aneurysm (p-trend < 0.01).

Conclusions: The results show that the associations and shapes of the associations vary depending on cardiovascular disease and source of added sugar, and ultimately emphasize the adverse health effects of sweetened beverage consumption.

Funding Sources: Swedish Research Council