This result takes on special importance in light of preliminary studies linking fructose intake to obesity, diabetes, and other health problems ”including pancreatic cancer. Most recently, a study reported that people who regularly drink soda may be more likely to develop pancreatic cancer. In that study, published in the February issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, people who drank two or more sodas per week had an 87 percent increase in pancreatic cancer risk.

The new test provides a simple new approach to measuring serum fructose level, overcoming the difficulties of previous tests. Measuring fructose levels may provide new insights into the relationship between high sugar intake and pancreatic cancer risk, according to Dr. Heaney and colleagues. "Considering the dramatic increase that has occurred in human fructose consumption and preliminary connections made between fructose intake and obesity rates," they conclude, "we believe that further investigations are urgently necessary to advance our knowledge of human circulating and tissue fructose concentrations and to establish guidelines for the safe consumption of fructose in both healthy subjects and those with a disease."

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