EpiStack

H-13 - Egg consumption is a marker of the Western dietary pattern that drives T2D, not a causal factor

1 min read

Properties8
type
hypothesis
id
H-13
state
merged
question
Is the egg-T2D association a causal effect of eggs or confounding by the surrounding dietary pattern?
statement
Egg consumption is a marker of a broader dietary pattern rather than a causal factor for T2D: in US studies eggs track a Western pattern (red/processed meat, fried potatoes, high-fat dairy, sweets, refined grains) associated with T2D, whereas in the Japanese study eggs track prudent/traditional patterns - so the residual association reflects the pattern, not the egg.
merged_into
H-9 - US egg-T2D association reflects residual confounding by the co-consumed Western dietary pattern, not a causal egg effect
source
S-8 - Wallin 2016 Diabetologia - egg consumption and T2D in the Cohort of Swedish Men + updated dose-response meta-analysis
locator
Discussion

H-13 — Authors’ preferred explanation for why the association appears only where eggs are embedded in a Western diet.

Graph View

Show model graphinteractive Bayesian view — separate from the graph above
added after the FLF submission deadline

Backlinks