Eating foods that spike your blood sugar quickly might slightly raise your risk of heart disease, but it doesn’t seem to affect stroke risk much — so it’s not as reliable a predictor of heart problems as how much total sugar your diet contains overall.

Eating foods that spike your blood sugar quickly might slightly raise your risk of heart disease, but it doesn’t seem to affect stroke risk at all—so it might not be the main culprit, and something else like overall sugar intake could be more important.

Eating lots of carbs that quickly raise your blood sugar may raise your chance of having a stroke, but eating carbs that are high or low on the glycemic scale doesn’t seem to matter as much — it’s more about how much you eat than what kind.

Eating a lot of carbs that quickly raise your blood sugar may increase your chance of having a stroke, but eating carbs that just spike your blood sugar a little doesn’t seem to make a difference — so it’s more about how much you eat than what kind.

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.

Eating foods that spike your blood sugar quickly might slightly raise your risk of heart disease—about 4% more for every 5-point increase in how fast the food raises blood sugar—but only if scientists look at it one specific way, not another.