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Thursday 16 May 2013

Research: Drinking just one can of fizzy drink a day can increase risk of kidney stones

Drinking a can of fizzy drink a day could increase the risk of kidney stones by almost a quarter, new research shows.

The study found that drinking sugar-sweetened drinks makes the painful stones more likely to develop.

Other drinks - such as coffee, tea and orange juice - reduced the risk, the research by Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, U.S., found.

Dr Gary Curhan said in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: ‘Our study found that the relation between fluid intake and kidney stones may be dependent on the type of beverage consumed.‘We found that higher consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks was associated with a higher incidence of kidney stones.’

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