A new research conducted has found a direct link between low intake of sugar and blood pressure. Doctors say that reducing your sugary drink intake by 2 a day helps reducing chances of death from a heart attack by 8% and from heart disease by 5%.

The results came out of a research conducted in Louisiana, USA. 800 people with mild blood pressure problems were examined for 18 months, most were overweight.

Participants managed to cut their drinking of sweet drinks by an average of half a drink a day.

The researchers included fruit drinks, lemonade, fizzy drinks and fruit punch as sweet drinks if, sweetened with sugar or corn syrup.

The research found a 1.8 millimeter reduction in systolic pressure and 1.1 mn reduction in diastolic pressure, according to the report in the journal Circulation.

Researcher Dr Liwei Chen, of the Louisiana State University, New Orleans, said that the research has shown that reduction in sugar sweetened beverages and sugar consumption may be an important dietary strategy to lower blood pressure and other blood pressure related diseases.

In addition, the researchers also conducted another research alongside to clarify whether the blood pressure decrease was linked to caffeine or the sugar content that is found in  the beverages.

Though an association between lower blood pressure and consuming less sugar (glucose, fructose, sucrose, and combined forms of sugar) was evident, there was no change in pressure levels when people cut their intake of artificially sweetened drinks or caffeinated beverages without sugar.

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