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Egg Consumption Not Associated with Higher — or Lower — Risk for CVD

By Amy Orciari Herman

Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM

Egg consumption is not associated with risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, according to a study in The BMJ.

Researchers followed over 215,000 U.S. healthcare professionals who completed food-frequency questionnaires every 2 to 4 years over several decades. Participants with CVD at baseline were excluded.

During up to 32 years' follow-up, nearly 15,000 participants experienced a first CVD event. After adjustment for confounders like hypercholesterolemia, lifestyle, and body-mass index, those who consumed at least one whole egg per day showed no higher (or lower) risk for CVD events than those who consumed less than one egg per month.

The researchers then performed a meta-analysis with this study plus 27 additional studies — and the findings confirmed the lack of association between eggs and CVD risk.

The researchers caution that there was "considerable" heterogeneity across the studies. An editorialist, meanwhile, calls the findings "convincingly null."