Sugar drinks lower bad cholesterol
Abstract P176: Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Lowers Lipoprotein(a) Levels in Obese and Overweight Adults: Findings in a Double-Blind Parallel-Arm Study
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When grown-ups who were a little heavy drank sugary drinks for 10 weeks, their special bad cholesterol went down a bit.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
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Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
When grown-ups who were a little heavy drank sugary drinks for 10 weeks, their special bad cholesterol went down a bit.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
Max 540 / 90
Evidence Score
Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, minimizing bias. Considered the gold standard for testing whether an intervention causes an effect.
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Drinking sugary drinks quickly puts a lot of sugar into your blood, which can create conditions in your body that might help cancer grow because these drinks don't have fiber, don't make you feel full, and get absorbed really fast.
Drinking sugary drinks for 10 weeks, where they make up a quarter of your daily calories, lowers a type of cholesterol called lipoprotein(a) by about 13% in overweight and obese adults, no matter the size of the particles.
People with both low and high starting levels of a blood fat called lipoprotein(a) saw about the same amount of decrease when treated, with drops of 14% and 11% respectively.
Drinking sugary drinks with glucose or fructose for 10 weeks lowered a type of cholesterol called lipoprotein(a) in adults—glucose drinks by about 15% and fructose drinks by about 11%.