Diet Soda Stroke Research

A research presented at the International Stroke Conference in California yesterday tied diet soda to the risk for stroke and heart attack. Conducted by Dr. Steven Greenberg, a Harvard Medical School neurologist, results showed that daily diet soda drinkers (there were 116 in the study) had a 48 percent higher risk of stroke or heart attack than people who drank no soda of any kind (901 people, or 35 percent of total participants). That’s after taking into account rates of smoking, diabetes, waistline size and other differences among the groups.

No significant differences in risk were seen among people who drank a mix of diet and regular soda.

Stroke conference: www.strokeconference.org.