American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 65, 1747-1764, Copyright © 1997 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

REVIEW ARTICLES

Plasma lipid and lipoprotein responses to dietary fat and cholesterol: a meta-analysis

WH Howell, DJ McNamara, MA Tosca, BT Smith and JA Gaines
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721- 0038, USA. whhowell@ag.arizona.edu

Quantitative relations between dietary fat and cholesterol and plasma lipid concentrations have been the subject of much study and some controversy during the past 40 y. Previous meta-analyses have focused on the most tightly controlled, highest-quality experiments. To test whether the findings of these investigations are generalizable to broader experimental settings and to the design of practical dietary education interventions, data from 224 published studies on 8143 subjects in 366 independent groups including 878 diet-blood lipid comparisons were subjected to weighted multiple-regression analysis. Inclusion criteria specified intervention studies published in English between 1966 and 1994 reporting quantitative data on changes in dietary cholesterol and fat and corresponding changes in serum cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations. Regression models are reported for serum total cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and low-density-high-density-, and very-low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol, with multiple correlations of 0.74, 0.65, 0.41, 0.14, and 0.34, respectively. Interactions of dietary factors, initial dietary intakes and serum concentrations, and study and subject characteristics had little effect on these models. Predictions indicated that compliance with current dietary recommendations (30% of energy from fat, < 10% from saturated fat, and < 300 mg cholesterol/d) will reduce plasma total and low-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol concentrations by approximately 5% compared with amounts associated with the average American diet.

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