For people who already have heart disease, eating foods high in saturated fats—like butter or red meat—doesn’t seem to make their chances of having a heart attack or dying any higher or lower.

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Dietary intake of saturated fat is not associated with risk of coronary events or mortality in patients with established coronary artery disease.

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2015 Feb

This study looked at people with heart disease and found that eating more saturated fat (like butter or fatty meat) didn’t make them more likely to have another heart attack or die sooner. So, the claim that saturated fat doesn’t raise risk in these patients is backed up.

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Dietary intake of saturated fat is not associated with risk of coronary events or mortality in patients with established coronary artery disease.

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DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.203505

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