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Table 4 Saturated fat and polyunsaturated fat intake in the diet heart trials

From: The effect of replacing saturated fat with mostly n-6 polyunsaturated fat on coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

 

Experimental group

Control group

SFA (%)

PUFA (%)

P:S

SFA (%)

PUFA (%)

P:S

RCOT [21]a

      

ODHS [22]b

8.5

20.6

2.44

   

NDHS [29]c

7.7

11.1

1.48

12.0

5.0

0.41

MRCT [23]d

  

2.00

  

0.17

LAVAT [53]

9.2

15.6

1.70

16.4

4.9

0.30

FMHS [43]

8.6

12.7

1.48

17.2

4.3

0.25

SDHS [25]

9.8

15.1

1.70

13.5

8.9

0.80

HDAT [31]

 

18.4

  

4.8

 

MCS [26]

9.2

14.7

1.60

18.3

5.2

0.28

DART [41]

11.2

9.5

0.85

14.9

6.7

0.45

STARS [44]

8.9

7.3

0.90

17.1

4.7

0.30

  1. Abbreviations: SFA (%) the percentage of total energy intake from saturated fatty acids, PUFA (%) the percentage of total energy intake from polyunsaturated fatty acids, P:S the ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acid intake to saturated fatty acid intake
  2. aRCOT did not report either SFA or PUFA intake or the P:S ratio. However, the corn oil group reported consuming an average of 64 g of corn oil and 2070 kcal per day [21], so the corn oil alone would provide approximately 35.0 g of PUFA [88] or 15.2% of total energy intake from PUFA [21]. bODHS only reported data on dietary intakes from 17 “especially conscientious” participants in the experimental group and from none of the participants in the control group [22]. cThe values for NDHS come from a weighted average of the experimental and control groups respectively. dMRCT did not report SFA or PUFA intake for either group. However, the experimental group reported consuming an average of 80 g of soybean oil and 2380 kcal per day, so the soybean oil alone would provide approximately 46.2 g of PUFA [88] or 17.5% of total energy intake from PUFA