Sugar sweetened drinks are responsible for higher blood pressure? Srsly?
I thought it was DemocRats.
(In fact, in my case, I’m CERTAIN it’s ‘rats, since I don’t drink sugar sweetened drinks at all... and I limit myself to six pots of coffee per day.)
Like was suggested, one would need to know more about the circumstances. Caffeine might be one factor. Another might be that if the volunteers only drank the sodas when they wanted them, they might only do so when feeling a bit weak and wanting a sugar hit. That would bring blood pressure up from a low to normal level. And was there an attempt to compare sucrose sweetened sodas to HFCS sweetened sodas? The latter are less satisfying and make the typical soda consumer who drinks at will want to drink more of them, increasing the volume of water in the blood.