New research links consumption of the common artificial sweetener erythritol to a heightened odds for clotting The study from the Cleveland Clinic adds to similar findings reported last year The study's lead author believes occasional bites of sugar-sweetened foods might be healthier for the heart than food or drink sweetened with erythritol THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- There's more evidence to suggest that the common artificial sweetener erythritol might pose dangers to consumers' hearts. The new study, involving 20 healthy adult volunteers, found that at doses commonly found in an erythritol-sweetened soda or muffin, the sweetener was linked to heightened activity of blood platelets, which could make clots more likely.
No such effect was seen with sugar, noted a team led by , chair of cardiovascular and metabolic sciences at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute. “Many professional societies and clinicians routinely recommend that people at high cardiovascular risk -- those with obesity, diabetes or metabolic syndrome -- consume foods that contain sugar substitutes rather than sugar,” Kazen explained in a clinic news release. However, his team's findings "underscore the importance of further long-term clinical studies to assess the cardiovascular safety of erythritol and other sugar substitutes," Kazen said.
The findings were published Aug. 8 in the journal The new study comes more than a year after Hazen's team published similar results in th.