Thank you for visiting nature. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. An Author Correction to this article was published on 28 January However, an updated and comprehensive assessment of the global burden attributable to SSBs remains scarce.
Here we estimated SSB-attributable T2D and CVD burdens across countries in and globally, regionally and nationally, incorporating data from the Global Dietary Database, jointly stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and urbanicity. In , 2. Globally, proportional SSB-attributable burdens were higher among men versus women, younger versus older adults, higher- versus lower-educated adults, and adults in urban versus rural areas.
Our study highlights the countries and subpopulations most affected by cardiometabolic disease associated with SSB consumption, assisting in shaping effective policies and interventions to reduce these burdens globally.
Sugar-sweetened beverages SSBs contribute to excess weight gain and cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes T2D and cardiovascular disease CVD , both directly and mediated by weight gain 1 , 2. Despite progress in elucidating the role of SSBs in health, an updated and comprehensive assessment of the global disease burden attributed to SSBs remains scarce.
Our previous study estimated that, in , intake of SSBs was responsible for , global deaths 3. More recent analyses looking at 87 different risk factors in , including SSB intake 4 , relied primarily on national per capita estimates of added sugar availability or sales data 5 , rather than individual-level dietary data 6 , 7 , limiting the validity and precision of estimates across population subgroups.
