Thread by @bigfatsurprise

I'm trying to figure how how this 'study'--which was a presentation by a Harvard post-doc at a @American_Heart conference, not peer-reviewed--got reported by @NBCNews, @CNN and others. No link provided even to the presentation. Link, anyone? 1/
nbcnews.com/health/health-…

The concl. that sat fats are linked to stroke is contradicted by virtually all other similar studies which have consistently found that more sat fat is assoc. w/ LOWER risk from stroke. This includes the largest such study in the world, called PURE: thelancet.com/article/S0140-…
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.@kaitsulliva, could you help with this? 👆
thanks

Here's another one, a review and meta-analysis from Japan, showing greater sat fat consumption associated with LOWER risk of stroke and cerebral hemmorage
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

And a systematic review for the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans found 11 observational studies on sat fats and stroke:
0 (zero) showed that sat fat increases risk of stroke.
3 showed that more sat fat linked to LESS stroke. (see suppl. materials)
mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/1…

Any media on this topic needs to put this latest study by Harvard into this scientific context. Also, the political context: Harvard nutrition dept. has staked out a strong position as advocates for plant-based diet, incl. vege oils. Its findings on fats are outliers, hvr