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Egg Nutrition Center says recent study on eggs and heart health is inconsistent

The executive director of the American Egg Board’s Egg Nutrition Center says a new study linking higher consumption of dietary cholesterol in eggs to cardiovascular disease is inconsistent with other recent studies.

Mickey Rubin says the study by Northwestern University researchers doesn’t reference other studies that led the U.S. Dietary Guidelines to drop the daily limit on dietary cholesterol in 2015.

“One of the studies in which they reference to provide that guidance was a large metanalysis of 16 other studies and showed that there was absolutely no link between cholesterol or egg consumption and heart disease risk,” he says. “This new study is inconsistent with that study.”

He tells Brownfield the study conflicts with previous studies and points to the need for more research, but the bottom line is that eggs can be part of a healthy diet.

“Eggs are not just a source of cholesterol, eggs have so many other great things in terms of nutrition in them that I think it’s really important to look at the whole package,” he says.

The study by the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Friday.

Audio: Mickey Rubin, Egg Nutrition Center

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