REUTERS: After a raft of studies reassuring consumers that eggs are OK to eat, a new report associates an increasing risk of heart disease with the increasing consumption of eggs.
"The amount of cholesterol you consume isn't linked in a straightforward way with the amount found in your blood," Allen explained.Allen's team analyzed data pooled from six studies involving a total of 29,615 people who were followed for a median of 17.5 years, according to the report in JAMA. When they analyzed the data, the researchers found an association between egg consumption as reported at the start of the study and participants' risk of developing cardiovascular disease.The association was weakened to the point that it was no longer statistically significant when researchers accounted for total cholesterol consumption. That, Allen said, means the association between eggs and heart disease is explained by the cholesterol in the eggs.
"This study does have clear limitations, including self-reporting at a single time point. This limits its validity." A big issue for Anderson is that fact that a lot of the egg-eating participants also appeared to be consuming"large amounts of meats and processed meats," she said.
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