# Two recent reviews about saturated fats and CVD

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**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/two-recent-reviews-about-saturated-fats-and-cvd/8936 "2019-12-20T16:41:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/two-recent-reviews-about-saturated-fats-and-cvd/8936/1 "2019-12-20T16:41:13Z")

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In the past few weeks, two scientific reviews about the relation between saturated fats and cardiovascular disease have been published, with different conclusions:

> **[Dietary Fat and Cardiovascular Disease: Ebb and Flow Over the Last Half Century](https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/10/Supplement_4/S332/5624058)**
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> ABSTRACT. Dietary modification has been the cornerstone of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention since the middle of the last century when the American Heart

  

> **[Dietary saturated fat and heart disease: a narrative review](https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/nutrit/nuz091/5678770)**
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> Abstract. The American Heart Association (AHA) recently published a meta-analysis that confirmed their 60-year-old recommendation to limit saturated fat (SFA,