Prolonged fructose intake may not lead to blood pressure rise
People who regularly eat fructose may not be at risk of increased blood pressure, a new study suggests.Previous research suggested that people experience an increase in blood pressure after eating fructose, which occurs in fruits, vegetables and high-fructose corn syrup.
But the latest research indicates that prolonged exposure may not cause problems for people's blood pressure.
Researchers at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, combined the results of 13 studies which had looked at the effects of daily fructose consumption for more than seven days on blood pressure.
Data on 352 people were included in their analysis, which found that those who ate fructose every day actually recorded a decrease in diastolic blood pressure.
Publishing their findings in Hypertension journal, the study authors concluded that replacing other dietary carbohydrates with fructose "did not adversely affect blood pressure in humans".
However, fructose is likely to remain a controversial sugar for some time, as just last month US scientists reported that youngsters with large amounts of fructose in their diet tended to have higher blood pressure and glucose levels than those with low-fructose diet plans.
