A group of experts from North Sichuan Medical College has found a new risk factor for kidney stones.
Publika.az reports that the study was published in the journal “Frontiers in Nutrition”.
According to the first recorded data, excessive consumption of added sugars, including ice cream and cookies, can lead to kidney stones.
During the research, the authors analyzed the data collected from 2007 to 2018 of about 30 thousand participants. They were asked about their history of kidney stones, as well as their diet, including their daily intake of added sugars.
The volunteers were then ranked on the Healthy Diet Index (HEI-2015) based on the amount of healthy components in the diet, such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and the moderate consumption of potentially harmful foods, such as salt, saturated fat, and salt.
After adjusting the results for sex, age, race or ethnicity, income, body mass index (BMI), smoking, and diabetes, the researchers found that participants who ate more sugar were more likely to develop kidney stones.
In the study, the quarter of people with the highest sugar intake were 39 percent more likely to develop kidney stones.
Volunteers who got more than 25 percent of their total energy from added sugars were 88 percent more likely than those who got less than 5 percent of their total energy from sugar.
It was noted that the mechanisms of this phenomenon have not been determined so far.
