Eating cholesterol doesn’t always raise your bad cholesterol, and when it does, it often raises your good cholesterol too—so your overall heart risk doesn’t change.

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Is There a Correlation between Dietary and Blood Cholesterol? Evidence from Epidemiological Data and Clinical Interventions

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

Human

2022 May 23

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Is There a Correlation between Dietary and Blood Cholesterol? Evidence from Epidemiological Data and Clinical Interventions

Score: 39

DOI: 10.3390/nu14102168

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