Is Whole-Fat Dairy Good for the Heart? New York Times
- “The study, published in Lancet, included 136,384 people in 21 countries followed for an average of nine years.”
- “Total intake of two or more servings of full-fat dairy food was associated with a 22 percent lower risk of heart disease, a 34 percent lower risk of stroke, and a 23 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease.”
From Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31812-9
PDF is available free at Sci-Hub 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31812-9
Note: I scanned through the Lancet study several times, but was unable to find a comparison of low-fat diary vs same number of servings of high fat dairy, as was hinted at by the NYT summary.
Suspect that High-fat dairy
==> Increased Cholesterol
==> Increased Vitamin D in blood (probably from sun)
==> Improved health
See VitaminDWiki
- Fat Is My Friend - Jan 2018
- Less cholesterol in diet resulted in less vitamin D in blood (in mice) – Feb 2016
- More cholesterol is associated with more vitamin D – June 2013
- Kids have recently reduced both cholesterol and vitamin D – Aug 2012
- Low fat dairy, etc.
- Cholesterol is needed to produce both Vitamin D and Cortisol
- Overview Cholesterol and vitamin D
- Cholesterol and vitamin D book - 2009
Cardiovascular category starts with the following
Cardiovascular category is associated with other categories: Diabetes 31, Omega-3 31 , Vitamin K 25 , Intervention 22 . Mortality 20 , Skin - Dark 18 , Magnesium 17 , Calcium 14 , Hypertension 14 , Trauma and surgery 13 , Stroke 13 , Kidney 12 , Metabolic Syndrome 11 , Seniors 10 , Pregnancy 8 as of Aug 2022
- Overview Cardiovascular and vitamin D
- CAD patients with low vitamin D were 1.6 X more likely to die – 27th meta-analysis Aug 2022
- Cardiovascular Disease is treated by Vitamin D - many studies
- Arterial Stiffness and Vitamins – only Vitamin D was found to help – meta-analysis Feb 2022
- Those raising Vitamin D above 30 ng were 1.4 X less likely to die of Heart Attack (VA 19 years) – Oct 2021
- Giving free vitamin D to every Iranian would pay for itself by just reducing CVD – Oct 2021
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest – 2.8 X higher risk if low vitamin D – 2019
- Peripheral arterial disease risk is 1.5X higher if low vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2018
- Heart attack ICU costs cut in half by Vitamin D – Oct 2018
- Cardiovascular disease 2.3 X more-likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Aug 2022
Cholesterol, Statins
- Cholesterol is needed to produce both Vitamin D and Cortisol
- Overview Cholesterol and vitamin D
- Statins and Vitamin D - many studies statins often reduce levels of vitamin D
- Statin side-effects are reduced by Vitamin D – US patent Application – April 2019
Overview Stroke and vitamin D
- Twice as many fatal strokes among whites who were low on vitamin D – Jan 2012
- Ischemic Stroke risk reduced by 2.5 if have good level of vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2018
- Stroke or coronary heart disease deaths 30% less likely if had taken more than 440 IU of vitamin D (900,000 patient years) – Jan 2018
- Major heart problems avoided if have high vitamin D – 234,000 people Nov 2015
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