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

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2022 Nov 9

When Czech people ate less fatty food in the early 1990s, their cholesterol went down and their body’s inflammation levels dropped, which helped fewer people die of heart disease—this matches the claim that less obesity and less inflammation went hand in hand with fewer heart deaths.

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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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