Diet Sodas May Hurt Your Kidneys
Do you drink two or more diet sodas a day to keep the calories off? Beware; you may be getting your sugar-free treat, but you could also be doing some serious damage to your kidneys. A new study has shown that diet soda could as much as double your risk of deteriorating kidney function.
The study was presented this weekend in San Diego at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, and showed that even women who have healthy kidneys displayed a 30% decline in kidney function.
Lead researcher Julie Lin, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a staff physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, studied more than 3 000 women who were already taking part in the Nurses’ Health Study over 11 years by comparing their dietary information and beverage intake with kidney function. Even after taking age, blood pressure, diabetes and physical activity into account, the study still showed that 11.4% of participants had a 30% or more decline in kidney function.
“With natural aging, kidney function declines about 1 milliliter per minute per year after age 40,” Lin told WebMD.
In the study, kidney function declined by 3 milliliters per minute per year. Unfortunately all the participants were women so researchers couldn’t say whether these findings hold true for men as well.
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