Research Suggests Higher Stroke Risk from Diet Soda

New research has raised health concerns about diet soda. KGUN9 reports that findings from a federally funded study in New York suggest that people who drink diet soda every day have higher risks for stroke and heart attack than people who drink no soda at all.

Doctors don’t know why diet soda may be risky. Maybe people who drink lots of soda also fail to exercise, weigh more or have other risk factors like high blood pressure. But the researchers took these factors into consideration and the trend remained.

The study was discussed Wednesday at an American Stroke Association conference in Los Angeles.