NHS Choices provides context and commentary for various media reports of this study. It states that although there was an increased risk of cardiovascular death, during 18 years of follow-up there were only 41 deaths from cardiovascular disease among people who never ate breakfast. Owing to these low numbers the analysis may be less accurate. Also, the study only had a one-off assessment of breakfast, which may not reflect lifelong habits. It also cannot account for what breakfast means to different people. For example, most people ate breakfast every day, but there could be wide variability from people eating a healthy breakfast at 8am, to people eating a bacon sandwich or grabbing a sugary cereal bar late morning. Overall the study supports the general view that it's good to eat breakfast as part of a healthy lifestyle. But it's not just eating breakfast that's important, but what you're eating.