Premature coronary deaths in Asians

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7029.508

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Alberto Ascherio,
Eunyoung Cho,
Kathleen Walsh,
Frank M Sacks,
Walter C Willett,
Azhar Faruqui

Assistant professor of nutrition and epidemiology Research associate Research associate Associate professor of nutrition Professor of nutrition and epidemiology Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Professor of cardiology National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi-75510, Pakistan

EDITOR,—Sandeep Gupta and colleagues discuss ways in which premature coronary deaths in Asians in Britain might be avoided.1 When cooking, many people in India and Pakistan use a semisolid fat obtained by partially hydrogenating vegetable oils. This product, called vanaspathi or vegetable ghee, contains high levels of trans-fatty acids, which adversely affect blood lipid concentrations and are thus …