Eating up to six eggs a week doesn’t raise your bad cholesterol or increase your risk of heart disease, even if you’re older, overweight, or have high blood pressure.

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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

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2022 May 23

This study looked at whether eating foods like eggs, which have cholesterol, raises your blood cholesterol or heart disease risk — and found it doesn’t, even for people with health conditions like high blood pressure.

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

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DOI: 10.3390/nu14102168

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