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# Total fructose linked to high premature death risk
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/fructose_linked_to_early_death_0520141057/
- Published: 2014-05-20T11:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:16:00.000Z
- Description: Among 353,751 adults aged 50 to 71 followed up to 13 years, women eating the most total sugar, total fructose and added fructose faced 13, 10 and 7 percent higher all-cause death risk; men in the top fructose group faced 6 percent higher risk. The link held for beverage sugars, not solid foods.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Tuesday May 20, 2014 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that eating fructose may increase risk of death from all causes in men and women.

N Tasevska at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona and colleagues conducted the study and found all-cause death risk was 13%, 10% and 7% higher among those who ate highest amounts of total sugar, total fructose, and added fructose in women respectively, compared with those who ate the lowest amounts. In men, those who ate highest amounts of total fructose were 6% more likely to die from all causes.

The increased risk of all-cause mortality was found associated with sugars from beverages, but not solid foods.

Added sugar was not associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality.

The researchers concluded "In this large prospective study, total fructose intake was weakly positively associated with all-cause mortality in both women and men, whereas added sugars, sucrose, and added sucrose intakes were inversely associated with other-cause mortality in men."

The study was based data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study in which 353,751 participants aged 50 to 71 were followed for up to 13 years.

Early studies have associated sugar consumption with increased incidence of cancer and other chronic diseases. 

Fructose is found high in high fructose corn syrup and sugar. (David Liu)