Indian Researchers in the United States discovered that women who consume sugar-sweetened beverages on a regular basis have a higher risk of acquiring liver cancer and dying from chronic liver disease. The observational study, headed by Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers in the United States, involved 98,786 postmenopausal women from the prospective Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study. The WHI study focuses on postmenopausal women's prevention of heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporosis.
The 6.8 percent of women who used one or more sugar-sweetened beverages daily had an 85 percent increased risk of liver cancer and a 68% increased risk of chronic liver disease mortality, according to the study, which followed women for nearly 20 years.
