Research
Macro partitioning
The association between egg consumption and CVD/mortality is largely explained by the dietary cholesterol content within the eggs, as the association becomes non-significant when adjusting for total dietary cholesterol.
If you eat eggs, be mindful of your total dietary cholesterol intake. The risk associated with eggs appears to come from their cholesterol content, so balancing egg intake with other cholesterol-containing foods is key to managing CVD risk.
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The associations between egg consumption and incident CVD... and all-cause mortality... were no longer significant after adjusting for dietary cholesterol consumption.
Why this rating
Same robust cohort data as N1, with additional multivariate adjustment.
Source
Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
Victor W. Zhong et al. · JAMA · 2019
DOI 10.1001/jama.2019.1572
cohort · n=29615Cited 328×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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