Eating less saturated fat didn’t help men who already had a heart attack live longer without another heart attack.

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Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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2015

The study found that when men who already had heart disease ate less saturated fat, their heart attacks and heart-related deaths didn’t go down — even though their cholesterol improved.

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Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2014-000196

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