According to NYTimes.com , it included 2.564 adults over 40 years, residents of Manhattan. The researchers found that both diet drinks such as regular were related to various risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease. Even after to control more of these risks, including diabetes, researchers found that daily consumption of diet soda was independently associated with increased risk of stroke, heart attack and death.
The reason for this relationship was unclear, the authors of the study, so its results should be interpreted with caution. This was published NYTimes . " This is not to alarm those who make these drinks , " said study author, Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist at the University of Miami. " What we found was a relationship, and this could be due to some other variables that were not considered . " However, she said, if people stop drinking diet soda, "will not be missing out on important vitamins or minerals" .
