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# Fructose Linked to Cardiometabolic Disease
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/fructose_linked_to_cardiometabolic_disease_1020121257/
- Published: 2012-10-20T13:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:50:55.000Z
- Description: G.A. Bray writes in Current Atherosclerosis Reports that meta-analyses tie sugar-sweetened beverages to cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic syndrome, and that trials of 10 to 26 weeks link them to higher triglycerides, body weight and visceral fat.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Chemical, Food Safety, #vivvo-import

By David Liu, PHD

Saturday Oct 20, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- G.A. Bray at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA published a report in Current Atherosclerosis Reports saying that using soft drinks with fructose can increase risk of developing cardiometabolic disease. Sucrose and high fructose corn syrup are two major sources of fructose. 

Dr. Bray says consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages have been associated with risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic syndrome in a number of meta-analyses. And use of fructose and sugar-sweetened beverages has also been linked to the risk of gout in men and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. 

Sugar-sweetened beverages has also been found to increase plasma triglycerides, which are associated with cardiovascular disease, and this increase is attributed to consumption of fructose, but not glucose in sugar. Both fructose and glucose are present in sucrose and high fructose corn syrup.

Dr. bray also cited several 10-week to 26-week randomized trials of sugar-sweetened soft drinks to show that the consumption of these soft drinks is linked to increases in triglycerides, body weight, and visceral adipose tissue.

Also drinking soft drinks with fructose is also linked to increases in muscle fat and liver fat, which are considered associated with non-alcoholic-fatty liver disease.