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H-3 - Dietary fat quality is a larger determinant of plasma cholesterol than dietary cholesterol quantity

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hypothesis
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H-3
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What matters more for plasma cholesterol: dietary fat quality or dietary cholesterol quantity?
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Dietary fat quality (degree of saturation) is a larger determinant of plasma cholesterol than the amount of dietary cholesterol consumed.
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HC-5 - Operative exposure behind the egg-cardiovascular association
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S-25 - McNamara et al 1987 - Heterogeneity of cholesterol homeostasis in man
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Abstract; Discussion

Generalization beyond this cohort of the within-dataset comparison. Bears on the egg question because it downweights egg-borne cholesterol relative to accompanying dietary fat.

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