Saturated fatty acid intake and cardiovascular risk

This editorial refers to ‘Dietary intake of saturated fatty acids and incident stroke and coronary heart disease in Japanese communities: the JPHC Study’, by K. Yamagishi et al. , doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht043 Since the 1960s, clinical and animal studies have shown that reduction of dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) consumption is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).1,2 Thus, reduction of SFA intake is now one of the...