High Intake of Saturated Fat and Early Occurrence of Specific Biomarkers May Explain the Prevalence of Chronic Disease in Northern Mexico

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RETRACTED: High Intake of Saturated Fat and Early Occurrence of Specific Biomarkers May Explain the Prevalence of Chronic Disease in Northern Mexico. Martha Nydia Ballesteros,¹ Rosa Maria Cabrera,¹ Maria del Socorro Saucedo,¹ Dimple Aggarwal,² Neil S. Shachter,³ and Maria Luz Fernandez². J Nutr. 135:70-73. ¹Centro de Investigacion de Alimentos y Desarrollo (CIAD), Hermosillo, Mexico; ²Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and ³Columbia University, New York, NY The authors of the manuscript referenced above request that this article be retracted because there is an overlap of data presented in Table 1 and part of Table 2 in this paper with the population baseline data (Table 1) previously published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Citation: Ballesteros MN, Cabrera RM, Saucedo MS, Fernandez ML. Dietary cholesterol does not increase biomarkers for chronic disease in a pediatric population at risk from Northern Mexico. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2004;80:855-861.