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Diet and Cardiovascular Disease

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Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

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When Ancil Keys demonstrated many years ago that saturated fat intake was related to elevated cholesterol levels and coronary artery disease death rates around the world [1], he ignited a debate which has not yet been fully settled. There is a direct linear relationship between saturated fat intake, cholesterol levels, and coronary artery disease. It is less clear whether changing saturated fat intake changes blood cholesterol levels in adults to a sufficient degree to significantly reduce coronary disease. The implications of these relationships are of great economic as well as health importance in those countries in which saturated fat intake is high. The outcome of this debate is not only of significance to physicians and their patients, but also to farmers, livestock producers, food distributors, and the governments which represent and oversee them.

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  1. Cornell University Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, Room F-105, New York, NY, USA

    Antonio M. Gotto Jr.

  2. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

    C. Lenfant

  3. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Via Balzaretti 9, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Rodolfo Paoletti  & A. L. Catapano  & 

  4. Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation, Houston, TX, USA

    A. S. Jackson

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LaRosa, J.C. (1998). Diet and Cardiovascular Disease. In: Gotto, A.M., Lenfant, C., Paoletti, R., Catapano, A.L., Jackson, A.S. (eds) Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5022-4_33

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