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SUBMITTER: Kearns CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5099084 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kearns Cristin E CE Schmidt Laura A LA Glantz Stanton A SA
JAMA internal medicine 20161101 11
Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) internal documents, historical reports, and statements relevant to early debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled findings chronologically into a narrative case study. The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as th ...[more]