2014/03/28 by Bo Xi, Shuangshuang Li, Zhaolu Liu +6 · 4 citations
Medicine · #Diet, Metabolism, and Disease #Nutritional Studies and Diet #Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies #Type 2 diabetes #Medicine #Relative risk #Diabetes mellitus #Sugar #Fruit juice #Prospective cohort study #Incidence (geometry) #Food science #Confidence interval #Meta-analysis #Cohort study #Environmental health #Internal medicine #Endocrinology #Biology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093471
openalex publication_date 2014/03/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
BACKGROUND: Several prospective studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between fruit juice intake and risk of incident type 2 diabetes, but results have been mixed. In the present study, we aimed to estimate the association between fruit juice intake and risk of type 2 diabetes. METHODS: PubMed and Embase databases were searched up to December 2013. All prospective cohort studies of fruit juice intake with risk of type 2 diabetes were included. The pooled relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for highest vs. lowest category of fruit juice intake were estimated using a random-effects model. RESULTS: A total of four studies (191,686 participants, including 12,375 with type 2 diabetes) investigated the association between sugar-sweetened fruit juice and risk of incident type 2 diabetes, and four studies (137,663 participants and 4,906 cases) investigated the association between 100% fruit juice and risk of incident type 2 diabetes. A higher intake of sugar-sweetened fruit juice was significantly associated with risk of type 2 diabetes (RR = 1.28, 95%CI = 1.04-1.59, p = 0.02), while intake of 100% fruit juice was not associated with risk of developing type 2 diabetes (RR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.91-1.18, p = 0.62). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support dietary recommendations to limit sugar-sweetened beverages, such as fruit juice with added sugar, to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes.