Sugar-sweetened beverages and risk of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis.

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Published in Diabetes Care on August 06, 2010

Authors

Vasanti S Malik1, Barry M Popkin, George A Bray, Jean-Pierre Després, Walter C Willett, Frank B Hu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Sugar-sweetened Beverage Intake Substitution by Water to Prevent Overweight in Mexican Children | NCT03069274

Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake and Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk in US Women | NCT03173586

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