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Biomarkers of dairy intake and the risk of heart disease

Journal

NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 1039-1045

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2011.02.003

Keywords

Biomarkers; Dairy; Myocardial infarction

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health [HL60692]

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Background and aims: Despite their relatively high content of saturated fat, studies of dairy product intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease have often yielded null or inverse results. The use of fatty acid biomarkers to reflect dairy intake could elucidate this association. This study aims to evaluate the association between dairy intake, assessed by adipose pentadecanoic (15:0) and heptadecanoic (17:0) fatty acids and food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), and the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), in a matched case-control study of Costa Rican adults (n = 3630). Methods and results: The association was examined using conditional logistic regression, adjusted for potential confounders. The associations of adipose tissue 15: 0 and 17: 0 with the risk of MI were not statistically significant (for 15: 0: multivariate-adjusted OR for 5th quintile vs. 1st = 1.14 (95% CI = 0.85, 1.53), p-value for linear trend = 0.77; for 17: 0: multivariate-adjusted OR for 5th quintile vs. 1st = 1.15 (95% CI = 0.88, 1.51), p-value for linear trend = 0.18). The association between the FFQ measure of dairy intake and MI showed evidence of a possible threshold effect, with a protective association observed for all but the top quintile of the exposure distribution. Conclusion: Dairy product intake as assessed by adipose tissue 15: 0, 17: 0, and by FFQ is not associated with a linear increase in the risk of MI in the study population. It is possible that the adverse effect of saturated fat in dairy products on cardiovascular health is offset by presence of beneficial nutrients. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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