The kind of consumed sugar –not only the taken quantity- can determine the risk of suffering from metabolic and vascular diseases, according to a study carried out on laboratory animals and led by Professor Marta Alegret, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB).

The new article, published in the journal American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, reveals that consuming fructose has more damaging effects on the metabolism and vascular system in laboratory animals compared to glucose. The new study is also signed by the experts of the UB Gemma Sangüesa, Núria Roglans and Juan Carlos Laguna, and Sonali Shaligram, Farjana Akther and Roshanak Rahimian (University of the Pacific, United States).

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