Sweetened beverage intake and risk of incident kidney stone: results from the UK Biobank (opens in new tab)

BackgroundTo investigate the associations between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs), and natural juices (NJs) and incident kidney stone disease (KSD), and to assess whether genetic susceptibility modifies these associations.MethodsWe conducted a prospective cohort study of 191,863 UK Biobank participants free of KSD at baseline. Beverage consumption was assessed using web-based 24-h dietary recalls (2009–2012), categorized as 0, 0.1–1.0, ...