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क्षमा करें, यह समाचार आपके अनुरोध की भाषा में उपलब्ध नहीं है। कृपया यहाँ देखें।
Did you too think that eggs are bad for your heart due to their high cholesterol content? Don’t worry, you’re not alone in this but you may need to change your thinking. A large study has now shown that people who consume an egg every day could significantly reduce their risk of cardiovascular diseases.
The study authors said, “The present study finds that there is an association between moderate level of egg consumption (up to one egg/day) and a lower cardiac event rate.”
It was noticed that eggs are a prominent source of dietary cholesterol, but they also contain high-quality protein, many vitamins and bioactive components which are overall god for the body and heart.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of deaths worldwide mostly due to ischaemic heart disease and stroke.
For the study, published in the journal Heart, Chenxi Qin from Peking University Health Science Centre in Beijing, and colleagues set out to examine the associations between egg consumption and cardiovascular disease, ischaemic heart disease, major coronary events, hemorrhagic stroke and ischaemic stroke.
The researchers focused on 416,213 participants who did not have cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes.
Analysis exhibited that compared with people not consuming eggs, daily egg consumption was associated with a lower risk of CVD overall.
In a nutshell, daily egg consumers (up to one egg per day) had a 26 percent lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke, a 28 percent lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke death and an 18 percent lower risk of CVD death.
Also, there was a 12 percent reduction in risk of ischaemic heart disease for people consuming eggs daily, when compared with the ‘never/rarely’ consumption category.
Though no firm conclusions can be derived here but the study had a large sample size and took into account established and potential risk factors for CVD.
