Research
Micronutrients & recovery
A well-designed vegan diet significantly reduces cardiovascular disease risk factors, including LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure, and can reverse coronary atherosclerosis.
Adopt a well-designed vegan diet to improve heart health. This can significantly lower LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure. For those with existing heart disease, this diet, combined with lifestyle changes, can help reverse atherosclerosis.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
Many study designs have shown that a vegan diet successfully reduces common CVD risk factors or is associated with beneficial short- and long-term health effects (i.e., low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure) [56,60,61,65,67,68,71,96–107].
Why this rating
Supported by meta-analyses and RCTs cited in the review.
Source
Placing a Well-Designed Vegan Diet for Slovenes
Boštjan Jakše · Nutrients · 2021
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