The work by Wang and co-workers that Simopoulos and DiNicolantonio place at the heart of their argument in fact showed only relatively weak associations between red cell polyunsaturated fatty acid levels and weight gain in humans, and the findings were described by the study's authors as only «suggestive». (sciencemediacentre.org)
The researchers also found weaker associations with three other genes involved in the HDL pathway: ABCA1, CETP, and LPL. (sciencemag.org)
Perhaps surprisingly, total cholesterol has only weak associations with heart disease and diabetes — weaker, in fact, than the correlation between these conditions and plant protein intake (+25 and +12, respectively). (deniseminger.com)