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The Effects of Saturated Fat on Cardiovascular Disease
The levels of intake do really matter. If you're doing an intervention trial, for example, and your participants at baseline have 13% of energy from saturated fat, you've randomized them. And then you achieve in your intervention group, a lowering to 11 or 10%. Then you've got no significant difference between your intervention and control group. But if you start to think about where did we see risk in populations with high saturated fat intakes, it's certainly much more pronounced over maybe 16%, 18%. Well, this means that this is an important threshold that needs to be considered. I think the number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome analysis was like 56 in the primary prevention trials. So