Dietary intake of saturated fatty acids and incident stroke and coronary heart disease in Japanese communities: the JPHC Study

Conclusions
In this Japanese population, SFAs intake was inversely associated with deep intraparenchymal haemorrhage and lacunar infarction and positively associated with myocardial infarction.

Source: European Heart Journal - April 21, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yamagishi, K., Iso, H., Kokubo, Y., Saito, I., Yatsuya, H., Ishihara, J., Inoue, M., Tsugane, S., for the JPHC Study Group, Sobue, Hanaoka, Ogata, Baba, Mannami, Okayama, K., Miyakawa, Saito, Koizumi, Sano, Hashimoto, Ikuta, Tanaba, Miyajima, Suzuki, Naga Tags: Prevention and epidemiology Source Type: research