Association of food industry ties with findings of studies examining the effect of dairy food intake on cardiovascular disease and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if the association of dairy foods with cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes differs between studies with food industry ties versus those without industry ties. To determine whether studies with or without industry ties differ in their risk of bias.

Eligibility criteria

We included cohort and case-control studies that estimated the association of dairy foods with CVD outcomes in healthy adults.

Information sources

We searched eight databases on 1 February 2019 from 2000 to 2019 and hand searched reference lists.

Risk of bias

We used the Risk of Bias in Non-Randomised Studies-of Exposure tool.

Included studies

43 studies (3 case-controls, 40 cohorts).

Synthesis of results

There was no clear evidence of an association between

SUBMITTER: Chartres N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722392 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature