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BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
Volume 344, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e363
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- FIS [PI04-0257, PI06-0366, PI04-2342, PI04-1822, PI04-1821, PI04-2188, PI08-0166]
- RETIC of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III [RD06/0020]
- Spanish regional government of Andalusia
- Spanish regional government of Asturias
- Spanish regional government of Basque Country
- Spanish regional government of Murcia
- Spanish regional government of Navarra
- Catalan Institute of Oncology
- Ministry of Education
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Objective To assess the association between consumption of fried foods and risk of coronary heart disease. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Spanish cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Participants 40 757 adults aged 29-69 and free of coronary heart disease at baseline (1992-6), followed up until 2004. Main outcome measures Coronary heart disease events and vital status identified by record linkage with hospital discharge registers, population based registers of myocardial infarction, and mortality registers. Results During a median follow-up of 11 years, 606 coronary heart disease events and 1135 deaths from all causes occurred. Compared with being in the first (lowest) quarter of fried food consumption, the multivariate hazard ratio of coronary heart disease in the second quarter was 1.15 (95% confidence interval 0.91 to 1.45), in the third quarter was 1.07 (0.83 to 1.38), and in the fourth quarter was 1.08 (0.82 to 1.43; P for trend 0.74). The results did not vary between those who used olive oil for frying and those who used sunflower oil. Likewise, no association was observed between fried food consumption and all cause mortality: multivariate hazard ratio for the highest versus the lowest quarter of fried food consumption was 0.93 (95% confidence interval 0.77 to 1.14; P for trend 0.98). Conclusion In Spain, a Mediterranean country where olive or sunflower oil is used for frying, the consumption of fried foods was not associated with coronary heart disease or with all cause mortality.
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