[Is sugar involved in the development of cardiovascular diseases?].

The hypothesis that sugar promotes the development of coronary diseases could not be confirmed by several epidemiological studies. But sugar can, through its high energy density in sugar-containing foodstuffs, indirectly lead to obesity and diabetes, and to early arteriosclerosis. A sugar- or carbohydrate-rich diet leads, in healthy persons, to a short-term hypertriglyceridemia which disappears after a short time following the adaptation of the metabolism. Certain people with a hereditary disposition toward metabolic disturbances also react, after a longer exposure to higher sugar consumption, with a rise of the triglycerides in plasma.