Trial reportNutrients2015
No Effect of Added Sugar Consumed at Median American Intake Level on Glucose Tolerance or Insulin Resistance.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Impact of Sugar Source on the Relationships Between Free Sugars Intake and Health: A Secondary Analysis.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Chronic Fructose Substitution for Glucose or Sucrose in Food or Beverages and Metabolic Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Food sources of fructose-containing sugars and glycaemic control: systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled intervention studies.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Pooled it
- The Effect of Small Doses of Fructose and Its Epimers on Glycemic Control: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Feeding Trials.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- Fructose-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction Is Dependent on the Baseline Diet, the Length of the Dietary Exposure, and Sex of the Mice.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The Impact of Free Sugar on Human Health-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
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- Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2022Article
- Excessive Intake of High-Fructose Corn Syrup Drinks Induces Impaired Glucose Tolerance.Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Heterogeneity in Metabolic Responses to Dietary Fructose.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- Sugars, obesity, and cardiovascular disease: results from recent randomized control trials.European journal of nutrition · 2016Review
- Added sugars and risk factors for obesity, diabetes and heart disease.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2016Review
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3 authors.
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Abstract
Excess sugar consumption may promote adverse changes in hepatic and total body insulin resistance. Debate continues over the effects of sugars at more typically consumed levels and whether the identity of the sugar consumed is important. In the present study participants (20-60 years old) were randomly assigned to one of five groups, three that consumed low fat milk with added fructose containing sugars in amounts equivalent to the 50th percentile of fructose consumption (US), one which consumed low-fat milk sweetened with glucose, and one unsweetened low-fat milk control group. The intervention lasted ten weeks. In the entire study population there was less than 1 kg increase in weight (73.6 ±13.0 vs. 74.5 ± 13.3 kg, p < 0.001), but the change in weight was comparable among groups (p > 0.05). There were no changes in fasting glucose (49 ± 0.4 vs. 5.0 ± 0.5 mmol/L), insulin (56.9 ± 38.9 vs. 61.8 ± 50.0 pmol/L), or insulin resistance, as measured by the Homeostasis Model Assessment method (1.8 ± 1.3 vs. 2.0 ± 1.5, all p > 0.05). These data suggest that added sugar consumed at the median American intake level does not produce changes in measures of insulin sensitivity or glucose tolerance and that no sugar has more deleterious effects than others.
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