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The researchers report that neither egg consumption nor dietary cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of stroke.
Their analysis, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, used health and diet data for 1,950 Finnish men aged 42 to 60 years. In 21 years of follow-up, 217 strokes were recorded.
Sure on average, men ate about four and a half eggs a week and consumed 408 milligrams of cholesterol per day. After taking into account other health and behavioral characteristics, the researchers found no difference in risk between a man whose average is less than two eggs per week and one who eats more than six. And a man who took 333 milligrams of cholesterol a day had no more risk of stroke than one who had more than 459 milligrams a day.
Even among carriers of the ApoE4 genotype, who are more sensitive to the effects of cholesterol, there was no link between the risk of stroke and egg consumption and cholesterol.
"I would not say 'eat a lot of eggs,'" said lead author Jyrki K. Virtanen, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Eastern Finland. "But for healthy people with no heart problems or diabetes, up to one egg a day should be O.K."
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