{"id":521929,"date":"2026-08-18T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=521929"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:16:08","slug":"daily-sugary-drinks-linked-to-higher-stomach-cancer-risk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/health\/daily-sugary-drinks-linked-to-higher-stomach-cancer-risk-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily sugary drinks linked to higher stomach cancer risk, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new study found that <strong>daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with a higher risk of developing stomach cancer<\/strong>, while researchers did not find a similar association with artificially sweetened drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study analyzed data from <strong>112,284 participants<\/strong> in two large U.S. health cohorts. During the follow-up period, <strong>278 participants developed gastric cancer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers found that people who consumed sugar-sweetened beverages daily had a <strong>2.45 times higher likelihood of developing stomach cancer<\/strong> compared with those who consumed less than one serving per month. Among participants in the Nurses\u2019 Health Study, drinking more than one sugary beverage per day was associated with a <strong>3.04 times higher risk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers also found an association between higher fructose intake and stomach cancer risk. However, they emphasized that the study was <strong>observational and cannot establish that sugary drinks cause stomach cancer<\/strong>. The research also had limitations, including limited information about <em>Helicobacter pylori<\/em> infection and family history of gastric cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found that daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with a higher risk of developing stomach cancer, while researchers did not find a similar association with artificially sweetened drinks. The study analyzed data from 112,284 participants in two large U.S. health cohorts. During the follow-up period, 278 participants developed gastric cancer. Researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":521930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[37165],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-521929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bMd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/refrescos_Mediano.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Health"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/refrescos_Mediano.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}