ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2019
Milk and Dairy Product Consumption and Cardiovascular Diseases: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
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78 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 171 citations in OpenAlex.
- A narrative review of nutritional components, health effects, and disease prevention mechanisms of dairy products.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Dairy Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular and Bone Health Outcomes in Adults: An Umbrella Review and Updated Meta-Analyses.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of Dairy Intake on Markers of Cardiometabolic Health in Adults: A Systematic Review with Network Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- Consumption of Dairy Products and the Risk of Overweight or Obesity, Hypertension, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Cohort Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
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- Biomarkers of dairy fat intake, incident cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality: A cohort study, systematic review, and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Associating the risk of three urinary cancers with obesity and overweight: an overview with evidence mapping of systematic reviews.Systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Total Dairy, Cheese and Milk Intake and Arterial Stiffness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cross-sectional Studies.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Full-fat yogurt compared with non-fat yogurt reduces blood triacylglycerol concentrations and lowers the triacylglycerol content in specific lipoprotein subclasses in adults with prediabetes: an exploratory analysis of a randomized-controlled trial.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Trial
- The acute effects of milk intake on calcium homeostasis and cardiovascular outcome: A randomized crossover trial in postmenopausal women.Clinical endocrinology · 2022Trial
- Effects of a multi-modal resistance exercise program and calcium-vitamin DEuropean journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
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- Dietary Ewe's Yogurt Intake Selectively Modulates HDL Subfractions Without Altering LDL Particle Size in Women: A Six-Week Intervention Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Plant-Based Drinks as an Alternative to Cow's Milk in Early Life: Health Effects in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2026Review
- Dairy consumption and cardiovascular disease risk: a multi-level analysis with inflammatory biomarker mediation.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- Substitutions of Saturated Fatty Acids From Different Meats With Dairy and Incident Relationship With Cardiovascular Diseases: The UK Biobank Prospective Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Back to the pre-industrial age? FAOSTAT statistics of food supply reveal radical dietary changes accompanied by declining body height, rising obesity rates, and declining phenotypic IQ in affluent Western countries.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Comment on "2024 Guidelines of the Taiwan Society of Cardiology on the Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease".Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2025Article
- Saturated fat from dairy sources and cardio-metabolic health: insights from the STANISLAS cohort.European journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Impact of olive oil and different animal fats on tissue lipid profiles of C57PL/6N mice fed non-atherogenic diet.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Milk and dairy products containing milk fat are major food sources of saturated fatty acids, which have been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular-related clinical outcomes such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke. Therefore, current recommendations by health authorities advise consumption of low-fat or fat-free milk. Today, these recommendations are seriously questioned by meta-analyses of both prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reporting inconsistent results. The present study includes an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of follow-up studies, an overview of meta-analyses involving RCTs, and an update on meta-analyses of RCTs (2013-2018) aiming to synthesize the evidence regarding the influence of dairy product consumption on the risk of major cardiovascular-related outcomes and how various doses of different dairy products affect the responses, as well as on selected biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk, i.e., blood pressure and blood lipids. The search strategies for both designs were conducted in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Web of Science databases from their inception to April 2018. From the 31 full-text articles retrieved for cohort studies, 17 met the eligibility criteria. The pooled risk ratio estimated for the association between the consumption of different dairy products at different dose-responses and cardiovascular outcomes (CVD, CHD, and stroke) showed a statistically significant negative association with RR values <1, or did not find evidence of significant association. The overview of 12 meta-analyses involving RCTs as well as the updated meta-analyses of RCTs did not result in significant changes on risk biomarkers such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure and total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. Therefore, the present study states that the consumption of total dairy products, with either regular or low fat content, does not adversely affect the risk of CVD.
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