Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and incidence of breast cancer: The Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) Project
Journal Summaries in Internal Medicine
European Journal of Nutrition — Romanos-Nanclares A, et al. | October 04, 2018
Given sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are an acknowledged dietary factor that increases insulin resistance, which may potentially lead to an increased risk of breast cancer (BC), therefore, researchers examined the link between baseline consumption of SSB and the incidence of BC among relatively young women in 10,713 middle-aged, Spanish female university graduates (median age 33) from the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) cohort, initially free of BC. A total of 100 incident cases of BC were confirmed during 106,189 person-years follow-up. Findings demonstrated a direct link between SSB consumption and BC risk among postmenopausal women. No association was found among premenopausal women.