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O-61 - Eggs are a major dietary source of cholesterol (~185-200 mg per large egg)

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O-61
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Eggs are a major dietary source of cholesterol -- one large egg contains roughly 185-200 mg of cholesterol, concentrated in the yolk -- making egg intake and total dietary-cholesterol intake strongly correlated in typical diets.
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S-21 - Zhong 2019 JAMA - dietary cholesterol-egg consumption and incident CVD and mortality, 6 pooled US cohorts
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An established food-composition fact (not resting on this cohort). Load-bearing for the cholesterol-mediation reasoning: because eggs are a dominant swing component of dietary cholesterol, an egg-CVD association is expected under the hypothesis that dietary cholesterol is the operative exposure.

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