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Letters Sugary drinks and cancer risk

Authors’ reply to Benton and Young

BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5665 (Published 25 September 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l5665
  1. Eloi Chazelas, intern,
  2. Mathilde Touvier, senior researcher,
  3. Bernard Srour, epidemiologist
  1. Sorbonne Paris Cité Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center (CRESS), Inserm U1153, Inra U1125, Cnam, Paris 13 University, Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN), 74 rue Marcel Cachin F-93017 Bobigny Cedex, France
  1. e.chazelas{at}eren.smbh.univ-paris13.fr

Benton and Young raised concern about our study examining only the association between cancer risk and sugar as a “single nutritional villain.”12 But our main analyses focused on the associations between cancer risk and sugary drinks or 100% fruit juices—the whole beverage group …

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