A couple of studies presented this Wednesday observed that people who drink diet soda are actually at higher risk of suffering from stroke or heart attack than those people who do not drink soda at all, and the fact that adding excessive salt to the diet is also a stroke risk factor.
The soda study was examined over 2565 people from all over Manhattan (USA) and it was found that those who said drinking diet soda regularly had a 61% of chance of vascular accidents than those people who said that they didn’t drink any sort of soda.
When the research team observed in allowances for some of the metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and peripheral vascular disease, the risk of 48% was higher, as per research from the snippet of presentation at the American Stroke (–foul word(s) removed–)ociation’s International Stroke Conference.
One of the lead study other of Miami Miller School of Medicine “Hannah Gardener” said that if their results are proven to be correct with future evaluation, then it would be highly suggested that diet soda should not be used as best alternate for sugar sweetened beverages.
There was another study examined over 2657 people in that very same area and it was figured out that excessive salt intake was also linked to a highly increased risk factors for sudden ischemic strokes, in which a clot (i.e. fatty deposit) stops blood flow from reaching brain.
It is specified that people who reported to have added more than 4000 mg of sodium in their daily diet, the amount existing in four large orders of finger chips in the United States – faced double the risk of stroke as compared to people who consumed less than 1500 mg of salt intake per day.
An average American would consume about approximately 3000 mg of salt intake as per day, and according to the study, although the previous research has indicated that it could be as much higher as 4000 mg per day.
Stroke risk factor that is independent of high blood pressure, increases 16% for every 500 mg of sodium intake consumed per day, including interrelation
between age, education, ethnicity, alcohol consumption, smoking, exercise, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and preexisting heart disease.
Symptoms of stroke include sudden numbness of face , arm, (and/or leg), specially on one side of the body (i.e. left or right), slurred speech, drooling, sudden severe headache for no apparent reason.