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While there is a vast literature indicating how saturated fatty acids differ from polyunsaturated fatty acids in their effects on plasma lipoproteins, interest in the specific effects of individual fatty acids on the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease (CHD) has been small in comparison. There are a number of reasons for this. They include the facts that (1) the whole field of CHD has been dominated for years by cholesterol metabolism (2) cross-cultural surveys of food habits have indicated that there are strong relationships between dietary saturated fatty acids and serum cholesterol, on the one hand, and age-standardised five-year CHD rates on the other and (3) effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids in lowering plasma cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) has come to be regarded as an adequate end in it self, because of the presumed but unproven benefit which populations and individuals may obtain from reduction of raised serum cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.
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Oliver, M.F., Wood, D.A., Riemersma, R.A., Elton, R.A., Thomson, M. (1987). Low linoleic acid - a new risk factor for coronary heart disease. In: Lenzi, S., Descovich, G.C. (eds) Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3205-0_22
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