Friday July 10, 2015 (foodconsumer.org) -- Eating fried foods could double your risk of developing heart failure, according to a new study recently published in the Journal of American Medical Association.
The study showed eating fried foods 7 or more times per week was associated with 107% increased risk for heart failure, compared to eating fried foods less than once per week. The more fried foods you eat, the higher the risk for heart failure. The association was derived after adjustment for other potential risk factors.
Luc Djoussé, MD, MPH, ScD, at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA and colleagues analyzed data from 15,362 male doctors enrolled in the Physicians' Health Study and found the association between intake of fried foods and risk of heart failure.
Consumption of fried foods is evry common in the Western countries. Some studies have already revealed a positive association between frequent use of fried foods and elevated risk of coronary artery disease, diabetes, and hypertension.
Heart failure is one of the major killers in the U.S. About 5 million Americans live with heart failure and half of them are expected to die within five years of diagnosis. The disease contributed to the death of 10% of all deaths in 2009, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Fried foods often contain trans fat. The trans fat can come from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils or vegetable oils. Natural vegetable oils when subject to thermal treatment at frying temperature can generate high amounts of trans fat. In the United States, trans fat contributes to about 100,000 deaths each year.
The CDC considers smoking tobacco, eating high fat, high salt foods, and physical inactivity the modifiable risk factors for heart failure. Fried foods often contain high fat (saturated and trans fat).
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