Higher consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among African-Americans in a community-based cohort correlated with an increased risk for subsequent chronic kidney disease, according to recently published data. Researchers performed a prospective analysis of a Heart Study and assessed the beverage intake with a food frequency questionnaire that was administered at baseline to 3,003 African-American participants with normal kidney function from Jackson, Mississippi. Investigators defined incident CKD as an onset of eGFR less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m² and a decline of 30% eGFR or more relative to the baseline among participants with a baseline eGFR of 60 mL/min/1.73 m² or more.
The association between the consumption of each individual beverage, beverage patterns and incident CKD was estimated with logistic regression. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to derive beverage patterns…
