ReviewNutrients2015
Egg phospholipids and cardiovascular health.
Review in Nutrients, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of egg consumption on circulating choline, betaine, and trimethylamine n-oxide in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Nutrition journal · 2025Pooled it
- The impacts of dietary sphingomyelin supplementation on metabolic parameters of healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Egg Consumption and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Egg and Dietary Cholesterol Intake and Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Egg consumption and cardiovascular risk: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.European journal of nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Association between egg-derived phosphatidylcholine intake and trimethylamine N-oxide in healthy middle-aged and older adults.Lipids in health and disease · 2026Trial
- Consumption of Different Egg-Based Diets Alters Clinical Metabolic and Hematological Parameters in Young, Healthy Men and Women.Nutrients · 2023Trial
- Egg Consumption and Blood Lipid Parameters According to the Presence of Chronic Metabolic Disorders: The EVIDENT II Study.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Trial
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- Association of egg intake with blood lipids, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 177,000 people in 50 countries.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Trial
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- Eggs early in complementary feeding increase choline pathway biomarkers and DHA: a randomized controlled trial in Ecuador.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Trial
- Cooked yolk fatty acid and metabolomic profiles reveal a greater docosahexaenoic acid proportion in one green-shell crossbred hen combination.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Co-Ingestion Timing, Rather than Food Matrix or Dose, Determines α-Tocopherol Bioavailability from Intrinsically Labeled Spinach in Healthy Adults: A Crossover Pharmacokinetic Study.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Lecithin exerts direct lipid-lowering and antioxidant cytoprotective effectsFrontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Confined Water Organization in the Fluid Phase of Phospholipid Self-Assemblies: The Three-Water Layer Model.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2026Review
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- Fatty liver reexamined choline and mitochondrial toxin amelioration.World journal of biological chemistry · 2025Review
- Association between dietary patterns and obesity-related metabolic phenotypes in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Untargeted LC-IMS-qToF-MS-Based Lipidomics Approach to Evaluate the Effect of a Polyphenol-Rich Beverage on Human Lipid Profiles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Eggs are a major source of phospholipids (PL) in the Western diet. Dietary PL have emerged as a potential source of bioactive lipids that may have widespread effects on pathways related to inflammation, cholesterol metabolism, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) function. Based on pre-clinical studies, egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) and sphingomyelin appear to regulate cholesterol absorption and inflammation. In clinical studies, egg PL intake is associated with beneficial changes in biomarkers related to HDL reverse cholesterol transport. Recently, egg PC was shown to be a substrate for the generation of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a gut microbe-dependent metabolite associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. More research is warranted to examine potential serum TMAO responses with chronic egg ingestion and in different populations, such as diabetics. In this review, the recent basic science, clinical, and epidemiological findings examining egg PL intake and risk of CVD are summarized.
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