The amount of saturated fat found in your blood doesn’t seem to predict whether you’ll get heart disease, based on blood tests from many people.

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Association of dietary, circulating, and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

Human

2014 Mar 18

This big study looked at the amount of saturated fat in people’s blood and found no clear link to heart disease — meaning having more or less didn’t reliably change their risk.

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Association of dietary, circulating, and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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DOI: 10.7326/m13-1788

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