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Very low fat diet = hypertension in women?

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In 1980, the diets of 85,764 women in the Nurses' Health Study (who were then 35-59 years of age) were reviewed, and followed up on in 1994. In this study by Meir Stampfer, and colleagues, which appeared in the journal, Circulation, women with high blood pressure (hypertension), low intake of saturated fat and animal protein were associated with an increased risk of a type of stroke (intraparenchymal hemorrhage) caused by uncontrolled bleeding in the brain. These ...

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