Consumption of individual saturated fatty acids and the risk of myocardial infarction in a UK and a Danish cohort

BackgroundThe effect of individual saturated fatty acids (SFAs) on serum cholesterol levels depends on their carbon-chain length. Whether the association with myocardial infarction (MI) also differs across individual SFAs is unclear. We examined the association between consumption of individual SFAs, differing in chain lengths ranging from 4 through 18 carbons, and risk of MI.MethodsWe used data from 22,050 and 53,375 participants from...