Added sugar in foods and beverages contribute to heart disease. None of this sugar is needed nutritionally - there is plenty of sugar in natural products (such as fruits).
MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLES ON SUGAR AND HEART DISEASE
The impact of high-sugar diets on central nervous system disorders: mechanisms, pathogenesis, and dietary implication
- Annals of Medicine, Dec 2025
The role of glucose in cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
- Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Car, Jul 2023
Added sugars drive insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease
- Missouri Medicine, Nov-Dec 2022
Sugar- and artificially sweetened beverages consumption linked to Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
- Nutrients, 30 July 2021
Sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption acutely decreases spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity and heart rate variability
- Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, May 2021
Added sugar intake is associated with pericardial adipose tissue volume
- European J. Preventive Cardiology, December 2020
Cardiac glucolipotoxicity and cardiovascular outcomes
- Medicina, 11 Oct 2018
Diabetic cardiomyopathy: the case for a role of fructose in disease etiology
- Diabetes, Dec 2016
[Sugar/caffeine] energy drinks and their impact on the cardiovascular system: potential mechanisms
- Advanced Nutrition, 15 Sept 2016
Elevated dietary sugar and the heart: experimental models and myocardial remodeling
- Canadian J. of Physiological Pharmacology, May 2010
Glucose and cardiovascular risk
- Netherlands J. Medicine, June 2002
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