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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.
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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
DOI 10.3390/nu13124545
narrative_reviewCited 20×
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