A sugar-free sweetener you might eat daily was just found to raise the risk of heart attacks
A new study indicates that erythritol, a sugar substitute you might find in various products or use to sweeten homemade drinks and food, can increase the risk of blood clotting. Erythritol seems to increase the activity of platelets, a type of blood cells involved in clotting. Cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes can occur when clotting happens inside blood vessels.
Cleveland Clinic researchers found last year that cardiac patients with high erythritol levels were twice as likely to experience a major cardiac event in the next three years compared to those who had low levels of erythritol in their bloodstream. A new study builds on that research.
This time, the scientists compared 20 healthy subjects who were divided into two groups. One group was given erythritol, while the other got glucose-sweetened drinks. The people in the first group showed a big spike in blood erythritol, which might impact the formation of clots. Blood sugar didn't show a similar increase in the glucose group, nor did the activity of the platelets.
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