"A summary of the committee’s December 2014 meeting says “Cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” Translation: You don’t need to worry about cholesterol in your food.
"Why not? There’s a growing consensus among nutrition scientists that cholesterol in food has little effect on the amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream. And that’s the cholesterol that matters."
[1] http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/panel-suggests-stop-warni...
Anyway, a starting point for your literature review on a contrary school of thought (which is, at present, the dominant school of thought) can be found at the American Heart Association [1].
[1] http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/HealthyEating/Nu...
> A better focus is on reducing saturated fat and trans fat in the diet, which play greater roles in damaging blood vessels than dietary cholesterol.