Changes in dietary fat and declining coronary heart disease in Poland: population based study
Open Access
- 21 July 2005
- Vol. 331 (7510), 187-188
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7510.187
Abstract
Mortality due to coronary heart disease has continued to fall in Poland in both sexes and across educational levels. Compared with 1990, by 2002 for the age band 45-64 years it had fallen by 38% in men (340 per 100 000 to 212/100 000) and by 42% in women (76/100 000 to 44/100 000). By 1999 (the latest year with comparable data), consumption of saturated fat had fallen by 7% (44.8 g/day to 41.5 g/day), consumption of polyunsaturated fat had risen by 57% (14.8 g/day to 23.3 g/day), and the ratio of the two had increased by 70%. Per head, consumption of imported fruit rose from 2.8 kg/year in 1990 to 8.8 kg/year in 1991 and 10.4 kg/year in 1999.Keywords
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