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Swapping your regular soda for a diet version may not be any healthier for the liver, new research suggests.
A study of UK Biobank data found that both sugary drinks and artificially sweetened ones, even those labeled zero sugar, are linked to a higher risk of liver disease.
Th findings were presented this week at United European Gastroenterology Week in Berlin, Germany.
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The study followed more than 120,000 adults over 10 years. None of them had liver disease when the research began.
Over time, scientists tracked what the participants drank and also assessed their liver health.
People who drank a lot of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) — li