Diet soft drink is associated with increased odds of proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Eva Katie FenwickAlfred Tl GanRyan Ek ManSabanayagam CharumathiPreeti GuptaKrystal KhooAmudha AravindhanTien Y WongEcosse L Lamoureux

Published in: Clinical & experimental ophthalmology (2018)

Consuming >4 cans (1.5 L)/week of diet soft drink is associated with a more than twofold risk of having PDR in patients with diabetes. Longitudinal studies are needed to further elucidate the association and its underpinning mechanisms.

Keyphrases

diabetic retinopathy
weight loss
physical activity
optical coherence tomography
cross sectional
randomized controlled trial
case control
placebo controlled