Eating more carbs each day — like bread, pasta, and sugar — might raise your risk of heart disease by 11% for every extra 50 grams you eat, and it might matter more how much you eat than what kind of carbs they are.

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.

Eating more carbs might raise your chance of having a heart problem, but it doesn’t seem to make you more likely to die from anything else or from cancer — so carbs could be hurting your heart on their own.

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.

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.

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.