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Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American populations where nutrition excess is more likely, so their applicability to other populations is unclear. METHODS: The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study is a large, epidemiological cohort study of individuals aged 35-70 years (enrolled between Jan 1, 2003, and …

Authors

Dehghan M; Mente A; Zhang X; Swaminathan S; Li W; Mohan V; Iqbal R; Kumar R; Wentzel-Viljoen E; Rosengren A

Journal

The Lancet, Vol. 390, No. 10107, pp. 2050–2062

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

11 2017

DOI

10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32252-3

ISSN

0140-6736