This finding was obtained from the results of a study of African-American adults domiciled in Mississippi, United States (US). The results of a study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) prove that consumption of soda, fruit drinks and sweetened water has unhealthy effects.
Quoted from Eurekalert !, certain sweetened drinks may affect kidney health. However, various studies have shown inconsistent results.
To clarify the impact of sweetened drinks, Casey Rebholz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and his team-mates studied 3,003 African-American adult men and women. When the study began, participants had healthy kidneys and were enrolled in The Jackson Heart Study.
"There is still little complete information about the impact of sweetened drinks available at suppliers of food and beverages. In particular, there is limited information about what drinks and how to drink patterns that can interfere with kidney health," Rebholz said.
The research began in the period 2000 to 2004 and then continued from 2009 to 2013. The participants were asked to fill out any food and drink questionnaires they ate every day. Among 3,003 people, 185 of them or six percent experienced chronic kidney disease.
After being investigated, it turns out they are consistently consuming soda, sweetened fruit juice, and water. Participants who had a drinking pattern like that were 61 percent more at risk of kidney disease than those who did not.
One interesting thing is the consumption of water which apparently contributes to kidney disease. The researchers suspect that the water drunk is not plain water but the packaged water has been sweetened and flavored.
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