Reduced or modified dietary fat for preventing cardiovascular disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reduction and modification of dietary fats have differing effects on cardiovascular risk factors (such as serum cholesterol), but their effects on important health outcomes are less clear.

Objectives

To assess the effect of reduction and/or modification of dietary fats on mortality, cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular morbidity and individual outcomes including myocardial infarction, stroke and cancer diagnoses in randomised clinical trials of at least 6 months duration.

Search methods

For this review update, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE and EMBASE, were searched through to June 2010. References of Included studies and reviews were also checked.

Selection criteria

Trials fulfilled the following criteria:

SUBMITTER: Hooper L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6486029 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature