Artificial Sweetener Consumption and Urinary Tract Tumors, Argentina

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Prev Med. 2008 Jul; 47(1): 136-9. Epub 2008 Apr 8.

Artificial sweetener consumption and urinary tract tumors

in Cordoba, Argentina.

Andreatta MM,

Mu SE,

Lantieri MJ,

Eynard AR, <aeynard%40cmefcm.uncor.edu>aeynard;

Navarro A. <anavarro%40cmefcm.uncor.edu>anavarro;

Escuela de Nutrici Facultad de Ciencias M cas,

Universidad Nacional de C ba.

 

OBJECTIVE:

To determine the role of the habitual use of the most common

artificial sweeteners (AS) in the development

of urinary tract tumors (UTT) in Argentina.

 

METHODS:

Case-control study of 197 patients with histologically confirmed

UTT of transitional varieties, and 397 controls with

acute, non-neoplastic, and non-urinary tract diseases,

admitted to the same hospitals in C ba (Argentina)

between 1999 and 2006.

 

All subjects were interviewed about their use of AS and

their exposure to other known or suspected risk factors for UTT.

 

RESULTS:

Fifty-one UTT patients (26%) and 87 controls (22%) used AS.

 

The risk of UTT was significantly increased

in long-term (>/=10 years) AS users compared with none-AS users.

 

The OR (95% CI) for long-term consumers was 2.18 (1.22-3.89)

and for short-term users was 1.10 (0.61-2.00)

after adjustment for age, gender, BMI, social status,

and years of tobacco use.

 

CONCLUSION:

Regular use of AS for 10 years or more was positively associated

with UTT. PMID: 18495230

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