Eggs, cholesterol & CVD

Introduction Each week I often receive an email suggesting a topic for the Monday note. Every now and again I receive several emails all about the same media headline/journal article. That’s what happened this week. The drama was captured by the Wall Street Journal headline “Study Links Eggs to Higher Cholesterol and Risk of Heart Disease” (Ref 1). The sub-heading of the article presented one of the main findings of the journal article: “Eating 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol a day – or less than that of two egg yolks – was associated with a 17% higher risk of cardiovascular disease.” The article itself was called “Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality” and it was published in the

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