1 in 10 cases of type 2 diabetes, caused by sugary drinks...184 country analysis results released
Jan 07, 2025
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Laura Lara-Caster, a professor at the University of Washington in the U.S., and Darish Mojafarian, a professor at Tufts University, published the results of analyzing the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in 184 countries around the world in the medical journal Nature Medicine on the 7th.
According to the analysis results, there were 2.2 million and 1.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) every year (as of 2020) around the world due to sugary drinks. In particular, it was found to be increasing significantly in developing countries.
Sugar-added drinks are digested quickly, rapidly raising blood sugar levels with little nutritional value, and regular consumption for a long period of time can cause various metabolic problems such as weight gain, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, but no studies have quantitatively identified their health effects worldwide.
The research team analyzed sugar-added beverage intake and obesity and diabetes incidence data based on individual-level surveys and estimated the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease from sugar-added drinks in 1990 and 2020 for 184 countries around the world.
As a result, it was analyzed that 2.2 million cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million cardiovascular diseases worldwide in 2020 were caused by sugar-added beverage consumption. This corresponds to 9.8% of all new type 2 diabetes and 3.1% of cardiovascular disease. In particular, the disease has increased significantly in developing countries such as sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In sub-Saharan Africa, sugary drink consumption accounted for more than 21% of all new diabetes causes, while in Latin America and the Caribbean, 24% of new diabetes and 11% of cardiovascular diseases were attributed to sugary drinks. By country, diabetes from sugary drinks accounted for 48.1%, 30.0%, and 27.6% of the total in Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa.
The research team said that the significant increase in the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular metabolic diseases caused by the consumption of sugar-added drinks in developing countries seems to be due to the increase in westernized eating patterns, and stressed the need to work more to curb the consumption of sugar-added drinks.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
