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

Table 5 Plasma cholesterol in the diet heart trials

^aThe values for NDHS come from a weighted average of the experimental and control groups respectively. ^bDue to the crossover design used in FMHS, only the values for total cholesterol at the end of each diet period are presented in this table. ^cThe actual numbers for total plasma cholesterol were not reported in HDAT and the numbers in this table were estimated from graphs reported in the study. This estimation is consistent with Hooper et al. [18], as they estimated from the graph that the average plasma cholesterol of the experimental group was 18 mg/dl lower than the control group at the end of the trial

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