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Sugary drinks 'promote gout risk'
06 Feb 2008
Drinking soft drinks could make men more prone to gout than drinking alcohol, a new study suggests.
Men who consume two or more sugary soft drinks per day are 85 per cent more likely to develop gout compared to those who drink sugary beverages less than once per month, scientists found.
The report, published in the British Medical Journal, established that the risks linked to sugary drinks and fruit juice were higher than with certain types of alcohol.
Gout - which causes painful joints and swelling in the lower limbs - affects more than 1.5 million people in the UK.
Caused by the crystallisation of uric acid out of the blood and into the joints, it is thought the number of sufferers has increased significantly over the past 30 years.
Meanwhile, latest figures show health conscious Britons are increasingly shunning fizzy drinks in favour of juices and water.
According to figures from Datamonitor, concerns about health could prompt a significant increase in sales of bottled water from 19 per cent share of the market to a 24 per cent share over the next three years.
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