Egg Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Men and Women
Response to Djoussé et al.
- Leslie Citrome, MD, MPH1,2 and
- Richard I. G. Holt, PHD, FRCP3
- 1New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York;
- 2Clinical Research and Evaluation Facility, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York;
- 3Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Division, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.
- Corresponding author: Leslie Citrome, citrome{at}nki.rfmh.org.
Djoussé et al. (1) found that intake of seven or more eggs per week was associated with a 58% increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men and 77% in women after adjustment for potential confounders compared with that in subjects who denied any egg consumption. Two important caveats need to be made explicit.
Firstly, eggs are often consumed as a breakfast food accompanied by other items that are potentially unhealthy, such as bacon and sausage. This may have confounded the reported results, and eggs may have been an innocent bystander. Although consumption of red meat and saturated, trans, and polyunsaturated fatty acids was …
