[Health Pick] If you drink soda more than 8 times a week? "Cardiovascular health is fatal".

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Which is more fatal for cardiovascular health, sweet snacks or drinks with added liquid fructose?

Analysis by a joint research team from the University of Lund in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark showed that the group who drank soda more than eight times a week increased the risk of heart disease by 33% and heart failure by 20% and stroke by 10% compared to the low intake group
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The researchers warned that liquid fructose does not feel full, which is likely to lead to excessive intake.

According to the National Health Insurance Service's 2023 Statistical Yearbook of Medical Use by Region, a total of 15.23 million patients were treated at medical institutions in Seoul last year.

However, 41.7% of them, or about 6,333,000 people, were residents of cities and provinces other than Seoul.

The number of local patients coming to Seoul is increasing every year, up 27% from a decade ago.

The so-called "away surgery" that comes to Seoul for surgery was also on the rise, and the medical expenses spent by patients in other regions at medical institutions in Seoul reached 10.9 billion won.

Many people plan to quit smoking ahead of the new year, right?

Ahead of the New Year, the picture and phrase of the cigarette pack health warning have changed since the 23rd.It changed from word-type warning expressions such as

{Lung Cancer} and 'Stroke' to sentence-type such as 'Lung Cancer, Road to Stroke' and added two pictures containing warnings about eye diseases and peripheral vascular diseases.

Newly changed warning pictures and phrases will apply over the next two years.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety detected companies that made and sold contactless thermometers without obtaining medical device license certification and urged them not to use the company's products.

The company was found to have manufactured more than 1,000 thermometers by importing and assembling semi-finished products from China without permission to manufacture medical devices and sold more than 900 online and offline.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety advised consumers who purchased the product not to use thermometers made by the company, saying that it may be difficult to accurately measure the temperature because they are not licensed for medical devices.

A large number of cosmetics that were exaggerated and advertised as if they were effective in fat decomposition or weight loss were caught.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it has detected 124 false hype cases by checking cosmetics sold online, saying they maintain body shape or lose weight.

99% of them were found to have exaggerated the product as if it had the same effect as drugs such as lipolysis.

We looked at this week's major health news.

This has been "Health Pick".