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dc.creatorVALENZUELA,ALFONSO
dc.creatorMORGADO,NORA
dc.date1999-01-01
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dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97601999000400007
dc.identifier.urihttps://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/126373
dc.descriptionTrans fatty acids are unsaturated fatty acids with at least one double bond in the trans configuration. These fatty acids occur naturally in dairy and other natural fats and in some plants. However, industrial hydrogenation of vegetable or marine oils is largely the main source of trans fatty acids in our diet. The metabolic effect of trans isomers are today a matter of controversy generating diverse extreme positions in light of biochemical, nutritional, and epidemiological studies. Trans fatty acids also have been implicated in the etiology of various metabolic and functional disorders, but the main concern about its health effects arose because the structural similarity of these isomers to saturated fatty acids, the lack of specific metabolic functions, and its competition with essential fatty acids. The ingestion of trans fatty acids increases low density lipoprotein (LDL) to a degree similar to that of saturated fats, but it also reduces high density lipoproteins (HDL), therefore trans isomers are considered more atherogenic than saturated fatty acids. Trans isomers increase lipoprotein(a), a non-dietary-related risk of atherogenesis, to levels higher than the corresponding chain-length saturated fatty acid. There is little evidence that trans fatty acids are related to cancer risk at any of the major cancer sites. Considerable improvement has been obtained with respect to the metabolic effect of trans fatty acids due the development of analytical procedures to evaluate the different isomers in both biological and food samples. The oleochemical food industries have developed several strategies to reduce the trans content of hydrogenated oils, and now margarine and other hydrogenated-derived products containing low trans or virtually zero trans are available and can be obtained in the retail market. The present review provides an outline of the present status of trans fatty acids including origin, analytical procedures, estimated ingestion, metabolic effects, efforts to reduce trans isomers in our diet, and considerations for future prospects on trans isomers
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherSociedad de Biología de Chile
dc.relation10.4067/S0716-97601999000400007
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBiological Research v.32 n.4 1999
dc.subjecttrans fatty acid isomers
dc.subjectpositional and geometric isomerization of fatty acids
dc.subjecthealth effects of trans isomers
dc.subjecthydrogenation and trans fatty acids
dc.subjectconjugated linoleic acid
dc.titleTrans fatty acid isomers in human health and in the food industry


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