Thursday, July 16, 2020

Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Pretty much matches up with this from April 2020:

Association of egg intake with blood lipids, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 177,000 people in 50 countries

The latest here:

Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Krittanawong C, Narasimhan B, Wang Z, et al
American Journal of Medicine|July 14, 2020

Researchers examined the link between egg intake and overall cardiovascular disease events, via this systematic review and meta-analysis. For this purpose, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Scopus, and Web of Science, all were explored systematically from inception from 1966 through January 2020. Experts identified 23 relevant prospective investigations with a median follow-up of 12.28 years. This analysis involved overall 1,415,839 people with 123,660 cases and 157,324 cardiovascular disease events. Although findings revealed no link between higher intake of eggs (more than 1 egg/day) and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but definitely demonstrated a significant reduction in risk of coronary artery disease in correlation with a higher intake of eggs (more than 1 egg/day).
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