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Updated: Tue 10:56 PM, Feb 21, 2012

Study: Diet Soda May Increase Heart Attack Risk

Bad news for diet soda drinkers.

A new study out of the University of Miami and Columbia University found a 43% greater risk of stroke or heart attack for people who drank a can of diet soda a day -- compared to people who didn't drink any.

The study looked at more than 2,500 people over the course of a decade.

The study appears in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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