Research
Macro partitioning
Western Diet is positively associated with Serum Total Cholesterol (TC) across all income levels, whereas its association with BMI weakens or reverses at high levels of Westernization.
A Western-style diet, characterized by high intake of animal products, sugars, and saturated fats, is strongly linked to high cholesterol. Even if your weight is stable, reducing these specific food groups can lower your cholesterol.
GoodQualifiesHIGH confidence
TC was positively and significantly associated with Western diet in both 1980 and 2008... In 1980, BMI was associated with WD, with some flattening for men and reversal of association at approximately the 80th percentile for women.
Why this rating
Large-scale ecological study with robust statistical modeling.
Source
The Global Cardiovascular Risk Transition
Goodarz Danaei et al. · Circulation · 2013
cross_sectionalCited 249×
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