Nutritional Advice El Mondo
Objectives:
Heart failure (HF) remains a major health problem affecting 5.7 million adults in USA. Data on the association of egg consumption with incident heart failure have been inconsistent. Therefore, this review article (meta-analysis) has been conducted.
Does egg consumption increase incident heart failure in the general population?
Study design:
This review article included 4 prospective cohort studies with a total of 105,999 subjects and 5,059 cases of new onset heart failure.
There was no evidence of publication bias on funnel plot analysis as supported by the Egger’s test (p = 0.68).
Results and conclusions:
The investigators found when comparing the highest (≥1/day) to the lowest category of egg consumption, a significant increased risk of 25% [pooled RR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.12-1.39, p = 0.00, I2 = %] for heart failure.
The investigators found that sensitivity analysis (stratification by excluding studies with men/women, 20 years of follow-up duration, US/Non-US studies) did not alter the main conclusion.
The investigators concluded that at least 1 egg per day increases heart failure risk in the general population. Further studies are warranted to explore the underlying biological mechanisms.
Original title:
Egg Consumption and Incidence of Heart Failure: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies by Khawaja O, Singh H, […], Djoussé L.
Link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367008/
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