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 Vitamin D Life
- 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
- Overview Cardiovascular and vitamin D
- Hypertension and vitamin D
- Overview Metabolic Syndrome and vitamin D
- Overview Stroke and vitamin D
- Peripheral arterial disease risk is 1.5X higher if low vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2018
- Peripheral Arterial Disease 3.7 X more likely in diabetics with low vitamin D – June 2019
- Heart attack ICU costs cut in half by Vitamin D – Oct 2018
Meta-analyses
- Heart Failure and Vitamin D meta-analyses - 2016, 2019
- Cardiovascular death 1.5X more likely if less than 20 ng of Vitamin D – 22nd meta-analysis Nov 2019
- Vitamin D supplementation reduces many Cardiovascular Disease markers– meta-analysis July 2018
Omega-3 Helps
- Cardiovascular Prevention with Omega-3 (finally using high doses) – Sept 2019
- Higher Omega-3 index (4 to 8 percent) associated with 30 percent less risk of coronary disease (10 studies) July 2017
A poor Vitamin D Receptor can block Vitamin D in blood from getting to tissues
- Heart Failure 15X more likely if poor VDR, even if good level of vitamin D (China) – March 2019
- Coronary Artery Disease without diabetes 5 times more likely if VDR gene problems – meta-analysis May 2016
Cholesterol, Statins
- Cholesterol is needed to produce both Vitamin D and Cortisol
- Overview Cholesterol and vitamin D
- Statins and vitamin D 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
Full-fat dairy reduced heart disease by 22 percent and stroke by 34 percent (136,000 people, 9 years) – Sept 2018
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