Do eggs increase stroke risk in older men?

The evidence doesn’t show a clear link between higher egg intake and stroke outcomes in this group. Cholesterol in food has been thought to affect heart and brain health, but in this case, the data doesn’t point to a meaningful connection. It’s possible that other factors—like overall diet, physical activity, or genetics—play a larger role than egg consumption alone.

We don’t know if these findings apply to men in other countries or to women, because the evidence we reviewed only covers Finnish men. Also, “a lot of eggs” isn’t precisely defined in the data, so we can’t say whether eating three eggs a day has the same effect as five.

The evidence we’ve reviewed leans toward no effect on stroke risk, but we can’t say for sure that eggs are completely neutral—only that no harmful or protective link has been observed in this specific population.

If you’re an older man and enjoy eggs, this suggests you don’t need to avoid them out of concern for stroke risk, based on what we’ve seen so far. But as always, what you eat overall matters more than any single food.