{"id":13030,"date":"2023-03-03T07:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/?p=13030"},"modified":"2023-03-03T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:08:10","slug":"sweetener-erythritol-linked-to-cvd-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/sweetener-erythritol-linked-to-cvd-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweetener erythritol linked to CVD risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-967138 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-804801 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-370959 kc_text_block\">\n<p>Erythritol, a sugar alcohol often added to reduced-sugar products and sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit, has been linked to blood clotting and a heightened risk of cardiovascular events and mortality, according to a study published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FpZALDjuQiAuGxhhQfEdcesfCGlYq__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nAwicSe-pxTtW56aBsf6v6lBa90p1jmH9xx1dzpRsCvMFWR7z5LxCp3mhQsr94ypK_BMlpZ6ldiVK6osevd_v6O0LpVa%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C241c0efb8a57491377f208db1ba22d2f%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638134155893688098%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5LoBj7aElrj4igJnmVhvFyf7vn%2B%2BFvHNGaDW1p6KD8c%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Nature Medicine<\/a>. Researchers said people with existing heart disease risk factors, including diabetes, who had the highest levels of erythritol in their blood, had double the risk of a heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Full Story:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FpZALDjuQiAuGxhhsfEdcesfCjVGO%3Fformat%3Dmultipart__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nAwicSe-pxTtW56aBsf6v6lBa90p1jmH9xx1dzpRsCvMFWR7z5LxCp3mhQsr94ypK_BMlpZ6ldiVK6osevd_v3E-P7X4%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C241c0efb8a57491377f208db1ba22d2f%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638134155893688098%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Dy9d%2BSUWk3VM4ByIEc1C2Vl0n65bvRfKiK47bIspCXg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0(2\/28),\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FpZALDjuQiAuGxhhEfEdcesfCutLN%3Fformat%3Dmultipart__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nAwicSe-pxTtW56aBsf6v6lBa90p1jmH9xx1dzpRsCvMFWR7z5LxCp3mhQsr94ypK_BMlpZ6ldiVK6osevd_v0d8aT6G%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C241c0efb8a57491377f208db1ba22d2f%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638134155893688098%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LoTDz53zR5Ojpgmm0vQbh309iszeTFEbLmfdKha4kKA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">HealthDay News<\/a>\u00a0(2\/27)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-diabetes-related-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13032,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions\/13032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}