Review of dietary intervention studies: effect on coronary events and on total mortality

Abstract

Abstract:The perfect randomised controlled dietary prevention trial of coronary heart disease has never been done. The Med 1994; 21: 98-106.)

Some problems with Cochrane reviews of diet and chronic disease

“…It does not appear in the abbreviated list of 65 references in the final WHO Technical Report 916 or among the 149 references in the background paper (Reddy & Katan, 2004). (The earlier Truswell (1994) was, however, in the longer list.) (Reddy & Katan, 2004).…”

“…There is an earlier published meta-analysis of trials of fat modification and outcome of coronary heart disease (Truswell, 1994). This included 14 trials, eight that appeared in Hooper et al but also included the Helsinki mental hospitals.…”

Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease by Diet and Lifestyle

“…25 In this trial, intervention was focused on both diet and smoking. In secondary prevention, the most emphasis was given to either antismoking advice 26 or diet, either by serum cholesterol lowering 27 or by other dietary interventions. 28,29 There is, however, also a need to test the combined effect of different dietary and lifestyle changes on different health outcomes in cardiac patients.…”

Dietary fats and 16-year coronary heart disease mortality in a cohort of men and women in Great Britain

“…There is support for the relationship from between-country comparisons (Keys, 1980), migrant studies (Robertson et al, 1977), dietary intervention studies (Miettinen et al, 1972;Burr et al, 1989;Truswell, 1994;Brousseau & Schaefer, 2000) and studies involving serum cholesterol as intermediary between diet and CHD (Hegsted et al, 1965;Stamler et al, 1986;Millen et al, 1996). A prospective cohort study of dietary fats to CHD death in a population of US male health professionals showed a weak relationship (Ascherio et al, 1996).…”