Multi-Country analysis of palm oil consumption and cardiovascular disease mortality for countries at different stages of economic development: 1980-1997

Table 6 Sensitivity Analysis: Impact of Palm Oil Consumption on IHD Mortality, with Growing Economies Removed One at a Time

Dependent variable: IHD mortality	Removed Brazil	Removed Colombia	Removed Ecuador	Removed Egypt	Removed Greece	Removed Mexico	Removed Peru	Removed Russia	Removed Thailand	Removed Venezuela
Palm oil consumption (kg per-capita)	16	17	17	18	17	18	17	5	17	17
95% CI	[4.5 - 28]	[5.1 - 29]	[5.6 - 29]	[6.1 - 29]	[5.2 - 29]	[6.2 - 29]	[5.5 - 29]	[-3.9 - 14]	[6.0 - 29]	[5.4 - 29]
Additional effect of palm oil in developing country (kg per-capita)	50	50	69	46	51	52	51	63	38	49
95% CI	[3.5 - 97]	[-62 - 161]	[23 - 116]	[-7.7 - 99]	[3.5 - 98]	[3.4 - 100]	[4.3 - 99]	[28 - 99]	[-3.8 - 80]	[1.0 - 96]
Observations (country-years)	225	227	226	231	229	223	230	225	226	228
R-squared	0.65	0.58	0.59	0.59	0.58	0.59	0.58	0.45	0.59	0.58
Number of countries	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22

Robust standard errors clustered by country. Econometric specification is identical to that of Table 3. Regression analysis was performed eleven times, with a single developing country (listed in the table heading) removed from the sample to test whether any one country was pivotal in the results reported in Table 3. For clarity of exposition, however, only the coefficient of interest is presented.

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