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Next up on our voyage is the Lipid Research Clinics Prevalence Follow Up Study (LRCPFUS). Nothing too much to see here and I was unable to get a .pdf for it. If someone sends one I can certainly get more info. from it.
This is a Canadian study that took FFQs from people at baseline and followed ~4500 people for twelve years. The results were interesting if not overwhelming. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Contrary to most studies, monounsaturated fats were associated with increased heart disease, but total fat and SFA were also associated with CHD. The association for SFA was the strongest and MUFA was the weakest.
In addition, carbohydrate exerted a protective effect on CHD in this study. The same caveats hold with this study as many others. Single FFQ, relatively homogenous study. Yet once again this study showed a significant association between CHD and SFA.
Tomorrow we will look at Mann's paper out of New Zealand on the dietary determinants of ischemic heart disease.
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Chanced upon an interesting study from Sweden today. Sweden had some of the highest CVD mortality in the 1970s, so programs were put in place to decrease cholesterol. They were successful at getting reductions in serum cholesterol by decreasing SFA primarily in the 80s and 90s.
In 2004, the #LCHF movement got a lot of press and Swedes seemed to be convinced by social media campaigns to abandon their dietary guidelines and decrease carbohydrates and increase fats. You can see that they did exactly that from the graphs. What happened?
Cholesterol levels went up, in spite of a near doubling of the use of statin drugs. In addition, BMI continued an inexorable rise, no changes were seen in the trends for obesity and no reduction in cancer rates was seen. In fact, cancer continued a steady rise.
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Some final thoughts on S-T & K's meta-analysis on SFA and CVD. When this was published back in 2010, headlines and news articles repeatedly called it "new research." The same canards were recycled when Chowdhury published a similar study 4 years later.
Of course, none of that is true. These were not new studies. Medicine is a human endeavor and people who are told there is "new research" that exonerates SFA should be getting actual new research.
A meta-analysis of tens of studies that shows no effect of SFA, when a detailed analysis of the individual studies shows a relatively robust effect of SFA on CHD is a form of lying. Remember, all the research is known to the researchers before they crunch numbers.
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Our final, non-duplicate study in S-T and K's meta-analysis is another study of strokes out of Japan. The Adult Health Study (apparently rated R), looked at a single category of cerebral infarction in Japanese from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The answer to the question you have in your mind right now is, "Yes, they were all exposed to the atomic bombs." So this is not your typical run-of-the-mill nutritional epidemiological study. What it's doing in this analysis is really hard to justify IMO. stroke.ahajournals.org/content/35/7/1…
The infarction is a single category, with no breakout between hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke. Does radiation exposure materially effect the risk of hemorrhagic stroke? One study suggests the possibility but I have seen no high quality research. bmj.com/content/340/bm…
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Instead, lets look at the 'In Our Own Words' survey, and the trans prison stats.
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