Is Fat Intake Associated With an Increased Risk of Death

Dr Kiel quickly reviews an article assessing the association of fats (total, saturated fatty acids, and unsaturated fats) and carbohydrate with total mortality and cardiovascular disease events SportsMedReview https://www.sportsmedreview.com/by-joint/ Wiki Sports Medicine https://wikism.org/Main_Page Cardiovascular disease is a global epidemic and the number one cause of death in adults across the world. It is responsible for 17.7 million deaths each year or 31% of all deaths. In the US, cardiovascular disease accounts for 795,000 strokes, 735,000 heart attacks, and 610,000 deaths. Prevention and risk reduction is the most important approach to decreasing the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Diet remains one of the most important modifiable risk factors, others include weight loss, exercise and tobacco cessation. Historically, diet modification has targeted a low fat diet with limited saturated fatty and trans fat intake. These recommendations are based on smaller observational studies and some assumptions about the relationship between saturated fat, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins and cardiovascular disease. Recently, several larger studies have suggested either no association or a lower risk between saturated fat consumption, cardiovascular disease and total mortality. The authors of this study saw these findings and sought to shed more light on the association of fats with total mortality and cardiovascular disease events.

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