trailProspective cohort studies generally show no significant independent association between dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.
Dietary cholesterol intake is not consistently associated with cardiovascular disease risk in the general population.
Large pooled cohort studies find a dose-response association between dietary cholesterol intake and cardiovascular disease or mortality.
Dietary cholesterol intake is confounded with saturated fat and other dietary risk factors.
In typical Western diets, dietary cholesterol intake is positively correlated with saturated fat intake.
High dietary cholesterol intake correlates with other unhealthy dietary and lifestyle risk factors.
Saturated fat intake raises blood LDL cholesterol.
Eggs are relatively low in saturated fat but high in dietary cholesterol.
claim · empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →claim page ↗︎
Prospective cohort studies generally show no significant independent association between dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.
⇄ContestedCredible evidence or argument exists on multiple sides.constitution →
2depended on by
this rests on ↓
claimA box is a claim: a single proposition the graph assesses, with its own page and map. Click any claim to centre the map on it.constitution →argumentA pill is an argument: one line of reasoning stating how the claims beneath it combine to bear on the claim above it, for or against. Arguments are not destinations; click their claims to explore.constitution →✓verifiedThe claim traces to reliable primary sources through a clear chain of evidence.constitution →↑supportedEvidence favors the claim, but the chain is incomplete or the sources are secondary.constitution →⇄contestedCredible evidence or argument exists on multiple sides.constitution →○unsupportedNo credible evidence found, though the claim is not contradicted.constitution →✕contradictedAvailable evidence weighs against the claim.constitution →?unknownInsufficient information to assess.constitution →◌unassessedNo current assessment — the Steward prioritises higher-importance claims, so this one is likely still queued.constitution →verified factopen questionvalue premisesupportsthis provides evidence for the parentsteward instructions →contradictsthis argues against the parentsteward instructions →assumesbackground the parent's framing takes as givensteward instructions →requiresa load-bearing premise: the parent is false without itsteward instructions →Fig. — detail falls off with distance; every claim is an address.