Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and population attributable fraction (PAF) for type 2 diabetes in the United States and the United Kingdom. Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and population attributable fraction (PAF) for type 2 diabetes in the United States and the United Kingdom. Circles represent mean of consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (left axis) and each bar represents PAF (%) for type 2 diabetes due to consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (right axis). Absolute event rates over 10 years were 11.0% in the USA (20.9 million events) and 5.8% in the UK (2.6 million events) (see supplementary table 7). Fumiaki Imamura et al. Br J Sports Med 2016;50:496-504 Copyright © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine. All rights reserved.