SOURCE:
The study, led by Ying Sun, MD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, was published online in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.
LIMITATIONS:
The consumption of beverages was self-reported and based on only five separate single-day food intake recalls which were taken over the first 3 years of the study, which was extrapolated to estimate weekly intake. The researchers could not tell whether the sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened drinks were caffeinated and could not rule out residual confounding by other unmeasured or unknown factors.
DISCLOSURES:
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Clinical Research Plan of Shanghai Hospital Development Center, Postdoctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
A version of this article appeared on Medscape.com.