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Artificially sweetened beverages and urinary incontinence-a secondary analysis of the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study
Urinary incontinence tends to occur at a higher frequency among women who enjoy consuming artificially sweetened beverages.
Can fondness for artificially sweetened beverages put a woman at risk of suffering from urinary incontinence? The purpose of this study was to provide answer to this question. Researchers recruited 80,388 women who volunteered information about their beverage consumption rates and occurrence of symptoms of urinary incontinence over a 3-year period.
Researchers noticed that women who drank more than 1 or more servings of artificially sweetened soft drinks per week had 10-12% higher chances of experiencing urinary incontinence than their counterparts who refrained from consuming these beverages. This study affirmed the notion that indulgence in artificially sweetened beverages may precipitate the development of urinary incontinence in women.
Research Summary Information
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2023
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Nancy E Ringel, Kathleen M Hovey, Chris A Andrews, Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Aladdin H Shadyab, Linda G Snetselaar, Barbara V Howard, Cheryl B Iglesia
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From the Urogynecology & Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Medstar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC. Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
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