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This is a correction to: Rina Ruolin Yan, Chi Bun Chan, Jimmy Chun Yu Louie, Current WHO recommendation to reduce free sugar intake from all sources to below 10% of daily energy intake for supporting overall health is not well supported by available evidence, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 116, Issue 1, July 2022, Pages 15–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqac084
Due to author error, the description of the study by Hieronimus et al. was incorrect. The revised text should read: “However, this study has several limitations. First, all sugars examined in this study exist in liquid form, which as discussed earlier, may have differential impacts on health outcomes. Second, this study lasted only 2 weeks, so it is not known whether the observed effect was going to last over the long term.” In addition, the intervention groups were incorrectly described in Table 4. The revised text should read “Beverages sweetened with aspartame (noncaloric control) vs. 25% daily calorie from glucose vs. 17.5% or 25% kcal from fructose vs. 17.5% or 25% kcal from HFCS.”
Due to author error, an incorrect p value was quoted when reporting the results from Sigala et al. in Table 4. The revised text should read “High fructose intake decreased 24-hour leptin AUC (-13.6 ± 7.6 ng/ml × 24 hours; p = 0.0006), in contrast to high sucrose intake which led to an increase of 25 ± 8.9 ng/ml × 24 hours (p = 0.025; p = 0.0008 vs. fructose).”
The conclusions of the article were unaffected.
The authors apologize for these errors.