People in China who eat a lot of carbs that spike their blood sugar quickly are much more likely to develop heart disease compared to those who eat fewer of these carbs.

Eating lots of foods that quickly turn into sugar—like white bread or sugary snacks—might raise your chance of getting heart disease, and the more of these foods you eat, the higher your risk goes.

Even though Chinese adults eat a lot of white rice and other sugary carbs, their risk of heart disease doesn’t seem to go up just because of how fast those carbs raise blood sugar—what matters more is how much of those carbs they eat overall.

Eating a lot of foods that spike your blood sugar quickly may raise your chance of getting heart disease—even if you’re otherwise healthy or don’t smoke or have high blood pressure.

People in China who eat a lot of white rice and other refined wheat foods like white bread may be almost three times more likely to develop heart disease as they get older, compared to those who eat much less of these foods.

Eating more carbs each day might raise your risk of heart disease — for every extra 50 grams of carbs (about the amount in a large potato or a big slice of bread), your risk goes up by 11%, even if those carbs don’t spike your blood sugar much.