1. Dietary Components and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality
- Author
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Daan Kromhout
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Framingham Risk Score ,business.industry ,Elevated serum cholesterol ,Clinical nutrition ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,Coronary heart disease ,Blood pressure ,Internal medicine ,Cardiology ,Medicine ,Dietary fiber ,business ,Serum cholesterol - Abstract
The so-called diet-heart hypothesis has dominated research on relations between dietary components and coronary heart disease during the last 30 years. This hypothesis states that saturated fats elevate serum cholesterol levels and persons with elevated serum cholesterol levels are at high risk for coronary heart disease (Keys, 1952). The evidence available for the diet-heart hypothesis will be reviewed in this paper. Other areas of current interest are the relations between energy intake, dietary fiber, obesity, and coronary heart disease and relations between dietary minerals, blood pressure, and coronary heart disease. These relations will also be reviewed and recommendations for future research will be made.
- Published
- 1985