In countries where people eat more cholesterol from food, more people tend to die from heart disease over 25 years — and this pattern shows up consistently across 16 different groups of people in seven countries.

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Dietary saturated and trans fatty acids and cholesterol and 25-year mortality from coronary heart disease: the Seven Countries Study.

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1995 May

This study looked at how much cholesterol people ate in different countries and found that where people ate more cholesterol, more people died of heart disease over 25 years—exactly what the claim says.

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Dietary saturated and trans fatty acids and cholesterol and 25-year mortality from coronary heart disease: the Seven Countries Study.

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DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1995.1049

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