HEALTHY DIETS AND SCIENCE: Increasing saturated fat consumption is associated with a decrease in death rates from heart disease

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Monday, 30 July 2012

Increasing saturated fat consumption is associated with a decrease in death rates from heart disease

This study was published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1996 Feb;49(2):211-6

Study title and authors:
Relationship between dietary intake and coronary heart disease mortality: lipid research clinics prevalence follow-up study.

Esrey KL, Joseph L, Grover SA.
Centre For the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada.

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8606322

This study examined the relationship between dietary intake and death from heart disease. The study included 4,546 men, aged 30 to 79, who were followed for 12 years.

Regarding dietary saturated fat, the study found that increasing consumption of saturated fat was associated with a 3% decrease in death rates from heart disease.