Even though heart treatments didn’t get better in the early 1990s, heart disease deaths still dropped — pointing to diet as the likely reason.

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Rapid Drop in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Czech Male Population—What Was Actually behind It?

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2022 Nov 9

After the government stopped subsidizing fatty foods like butter and meat, Czech men ate less of them, their cholesterol dropped, and their heart disease deaths fell—even though doctors didn’t have better treatments at the time.

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Rapid Drop in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Czech Male Population—What Was Actually behind It?

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DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10112871

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After the Czech government stopped subsidizing butter and fatty meats, heart disease deaths in men dropped dramatically over the next two decades.

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Fewer people were obese in the early 1990s in the Czech Republic, and this was linked to less body-wide inflammation and fewer heart disease deaths.

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