Cardiovascular disease
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- 'No consensus has been reached about whether such associations showing protective effect of protein for cardiovascular disease are causal and no convincing potential mechanisms have been proposed'.
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- 'For cardiovascular diseases, the association between protein intake and coronary heart disease and stroke was statistically non-significant in six cohort studies, and the evidence was regarded as inconclusive'.
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Blood Pressure
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- 'Overall, while it seems certain that protein intakes are not harmful for blood pressure, with cross-sectional population studies clearly showing benefit of increasing protein intakes, some caution is probably still justified since dietary associations can be confounded by highly correlated nutrients for which no adjustment has been made'.
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- 'The evidence for an association between protein intake and blood pressure was assessed as inconclusive for total and animal protein, but an inverse association with vegetable protein intake was assessed as suggestive'.
- 'Evidence is suggestive for an inverse association between hypertension and intake of vegetable protein'.
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Blood lipids
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- 'The evidence was assessed as probable to convincing in regard to the effect of soya protein on LDL-cholesterol concentration'.
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