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# Dairy foods not linked to heart attack
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/dairy_foods_not_linked_to_heart_attack_0519111212/
- Published: 2011-05-18T13:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:46:03.000Z
- Description: Brown University's Stella Aslibekyan compared dairy fat biomarkers and heart attacks among 3,630 middle-aged Costa Ricans and found no statistically significant effect, with components such as vitamin D, calcium, potassium and CLA possibly protective.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, Heart Attack, Dairy, #vivvo-import

By David Liu, Ph.D. and editing by Aimee Keenan-Green

Eating dairy products, like milk and cheese, may not increase the risk of heart attack risk and may even help protect the heart.

Brown University's Stella Aslibekyan and colleagues analyzed data collected in the epidemiological study on dairy consumption.

Specifically they reviewed dairy fat biomarkers, 15:0 and 17:0, and incidence of heart attack in 3,630 middle-aged men and women in Costa Rica who participated in the study from 1994 through 2004\. Of the participants, 1815 had non-fatal heart attacks and the others did not.

Dairy foods did not have a statistically significant effect on the risk of heart attack and some components like vitamin D, minerals like calcium, potassium, magnesium and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may provide some protection, the researchers found.

The study was funded by the The National Institutes of Health and the findings were reported online in the May 4 2011 issue of the journal *Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.*

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