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This is a big deal; I’ve been planning this vacation with our children and grandchildren for almost a year and really just want to be able to enjoy it without worrying about side effects of new medou's. It’s pretty tempting to just put off making any med changes until after the trip.
My biggest concern, however, is my wet macular degeneration.
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Sometimes we are faced with a situation where there does not seem to be an easy answer. It seems that you are in such a situation, Thumper, and I hope all turns out well for you. Taking the family vacation to Europe seems like something that will be a wonderful experience for all of you. I hope that you can be stable on your medicines and enjoy this special time with your children and grandchildren. You can take some comfort in knowing that there are good medical doctors and facilities where you will be traveling and in the case of an emergency (which may never happen), good care will be available. Between now and your July vacation, stay in touch with your doctors and hopefully they can advise you wisely. When you get back, you can begin once again to address finding a solution for your dilemma. I hope you will be feeling well on your trip and have a wonderful time with your family!
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Of course, there’s more to the story
Before you despair or give up your favorite diet beverage forever, keep in mind that a study of this sort has some major limitations that can lead to faulty conclusions. For example:
It’s impossible to account for every factor that could affect the results. For example, maybe people with diabetes or a family history of diabetes chose sugar-free soft drinks more often than people without diabetes would. So it could be their diabetes and family history, not the diet soft drink consumption, that was responsible for their higher rates of stroke and dementia.
This type of study cannot establish cause and effect. Even if there is a higher rate of brain disease in people who drink more diet soft drinks, we can’t be sure that the diet soft drinks were the cause.
This study did not look at the overall health effects of diet soft drinks; it’s possible they are still a healthier choice than sugar-sweetened beverages.
This study was conducted when most artificially sweetened beverages contained saccharin (Sweet’N Low, Sweet Twin), acesulfame-K (Sunett, Sweet One), or aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal). Newer sweeteners, such as sucralose (as in Splenda) were unlikely to have been included.
While the risk of stroke or dementia was higher among those consuming diet soft drinks, only about 3% of the studied population had strokes and about 5% developed dementia. So, while a higher risk was observed among diet beverage drinkers, the overall risk in those who did or did not drink diet beverages was relatively low.
This study only looked at artificially sweetened soft drinks. It didn’t look at use of artificial sweeteners in foods or beverages other than soft drinks.
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From the results, it was concluded that artificially sweetened soft drink consumption was associated with a higher risk of stroke and dementia.
While preliminary research found a link between daily intake and increased risk, the chain of evidence is not as strong as reported. The researchers analyzed data from an ongoing U.S. cohort study to see if consumption of sugar or artificially sweetened drinks was linked with risk of stroke or dementia 10 years later. Several thousand people were included in the study, and during follow-up 3% had a stroke and 5% developed dementia. Overall, when taking account of all health and lifestyle factors that could have an influence, contrary to the results offered, the researchers actually found no link between artificially sweetened drinks and risk of dementia.
The figures reported in the media came from a model that wasn’t adjusted for all confounders, such as diabetes, that could explain part of the link. For stroke, the links with artificially sweetened drinks were inconsistent. There were no overall links when looking at longer-term patterns. The study does not give definitive “cause and effect” proof that drinking artificially sweetened drinks will lead to stroke or dementia. Still, the lead author’s reported statement that it is healthier (not to mention cheaper) to just drink water is sound advice.
This was all started by the study which was carried out by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Tufts University, Boston. The study was published in Stroke, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association, on an open-access basis. The Guardian gave a good overview of the research while making clear that no cause and effect had been proven.
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