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This is a suggestive study, but far from conclusive on its own.

Given the popular zeitgeist around egg consumption, it’s quite likely that those who eat eggs are also more likely to engage in other riskier or unhealthful activities.

This study seems to try to look for confounds, but in the end is a self-report study, which (again given common attitudes around egg consumption) means that I’d be looking for huge effect sizes to believe there is something real going on.

As it is, you’d have to believe that people who care about health but eat eggs anyway are less than 7% more likely to underreport their cholesterol consumption. (Number made up, but the effect size in the paper is about a 7% greater risk.)