PUFA better than MUFA for heart disease

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Hi All,

Poly- is better than monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids to

prevent

heart disease in a primate model? This seems to be what

the pdf-available to all below suggested to me.

The wisdom here seems to be that the monounsaturated

fats are better.

Certainly 9 years old is a long time ago for a paper. The

journal is quite well read. Primates are a good model system

for human disease assessment.

Note, that the blood fats dived while heart disease risk

floated.

Rudel LL, Parks JS, Sawyer JK.

Compared with dietary monounsaturated and saturated fat,

polyunsaturated fat

protects African green monkeys from coronary artery atherosclerosis.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 1995 Dec;15(12):2101-10.

PMID: 7489230 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://atvb.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/15/12/2101

Cheers, Alan Pater