ArticlePublic health nutrition2025
Disproportionately higher asthma risk and incidence with high fructose corn syrup, but not sucrose intake, among Black young adults: the CARDIA Study.
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- Dietary sugar and soft drink consumption in relation to atopic disease in children: evidence from the Polish global asthma network study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
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- High-Fructose Corn Syrup on Inflammation and Cancer.World journal of oncology · 2025Review
- 40 years of adding more fructose to high fructose corn syrup than is safe, through the lens of malabsorption and altered gut health-gateways to chronic disease.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
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designDemographic, lifestyle and dietary data collected at enrollment (1985-86), and incident asthma through exam 5 (1995-96), were used in Cox proportional hazards models to assess HFCS intake associations (hazard ratios) with asthma risk/incidence.
settingCARDIA study participants from Birmingham, AL, Chicago, IL, Minneapolis, MN and Oakland, CA.
participants1998 Black and 2104 White young adults.
resultsHFCS-sweetened beverage intake > once/week
conclusionsUbiquitous HFCS in the US food supply, with HFCS that contains high/unsafe unpaired fructose, also known as excess-free-fructose, and the fructose/gut/lung/axis are overlooked risk factors in the 'unexplained' US asthma epidemic that disproportionately affects Black individuals.
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