Red Meat Metabolite Linked To Heart Failure
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Eating foods that contain saturated fat, like red meat, can increase risk for cardiac events. Now, new research published in Heart suggests another substance commonly found in red meat can increase risk for acute heart failure: trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). "Our study shows that higher levels of TMAO, a metabolite of carnitine derived from red meat, is…