A study in BMCMedicine finds that vegetarian men and women have a higher risk of hip fracture than regular meat-eaters. However, the absolute risk differences are small and should be weighed against the potential health benefits of vegetarian diets.
Ethical approval was granted from the NHS North West Multicentre Research Ethics Committee , and participants provided informed consent for data linkage to health records.JW is in receipt of a scholarship from Rank Prize Funds, and JEC is Founder and Director of Dietary Assessment Ltd. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest.Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Table S4: Diet group classifications at recruitment and at the latest point of available follow-up in UK Biobank participants. Table S5: Dietary characteristics of UK Biobank participants by diet group at recruitment. Table S6: Characteristics of UK Biobank participants by diet group at recruitment, stratified by sex. Table S7: Characteristics of UK Biobank participants at recruitment that were included or excluded from analyses.
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