High-fiber diet linked to lower death risk after heart attack

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High-fiber diet linked to lower death risk after heart attack

By Allison Bond NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a large U.S. study of men and women with a heart attack in their past, those who had upped their fiber intake the most afterwards had the lowest risk of death. “There are additional benefits that come from eating healthy,” said Shanshan Li, the study’s lead author and an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Diet plays an important role in the development of heart and artery disease, Li and her co-authors write in the journal BMJ, but little is known about the difference dietary fiber might make after a heart attack. At the beginning of the study period the 2,258 women and 1,840 men included in the analysis had survived a first heart attack and had never had a stroke.

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