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Plant-based diets and body composition in Chinese omnivorous children aged 6–9 years old: A cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Evidence suggests that plant-based diets are beneficial for alleviating metabolic diseases. Childhood is a crucial period for body growth and development.
Gengdong Chen, Mengyang Su, Xinwei Chu, Yuanhuan Wei, Shanshan Chen, Yingyu Zhou, Zhengping Liu, Zheqing Zhang   +7 more
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Plant‐Based Diets Are Associated With a Lower Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, and All‐Cause Mortality in a General Population of Middle‐Aged Adults

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Previous studies have documented the cardiometabolic health benefits of plant‐based diets; however, these studies were conducted in selected study populations that had narrow generalizability.
Hyunju Kim, Laura E. Caulfield, Vanessa Garcia‐Larsen, Lyn M. Steffen, Josef Coresh, Casey M. Rebholz   +5 more
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Diet and Chronic Inflammation

EDIS, 2020
Inflammation is your body's response to injury and infection—it's how your immune system helps to protect you from harm. In contrast, chronic inflammation contributes to many diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease ...
Daniela Rivero-Mendoza, Wendy J. Dahl
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Plant-based dietary patterns and fasting insulin: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2017–2018

BMC Nutrition, 2023
Background Previous studies have created plant-based diet indices to assess the health effects of specific dietary patterns. Objective To examine the association between the plant-based content of diet and fasting insulin in adults from the NHANES 2017 ...
Dana Curlin, Marion E. Hare, Elizabeth A. Tolley, Justin Gatwood   +3 more
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Plant-Based Diets and the Incidence of Asthma Symptoms among Elderly Women, and the Mediating Role of Body Mass Index

Nutrients, 2022
We aimed to test the hypothesis that adherence to a healthful plant-based diet (hPDI) is associated with a subsequent decrease in the incidence of asthma symptoms, with an opposite association with adherence to an unhealthful plant-based diet (uPDI). In addition, we evaluated a potential mediating role of body mass index (BMI) and the modifying effect ...
Ait-Hadad, Wassila, Bédard, Annabelle, Delvert, Rosalie, Orsi, Laurent, Chanoine, Sébastien, Dumas, Orianne, Laouali, Nasser, Le Moual, Nicole, Leynaert, Bénédicte, Siroux, Valérie, Boutron-Ruault, Marie Christine, Varraso, Raphäelle   +11 more
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Plant-based dietary index on the Mediterranean and a vegan diet: a secondary analysis of a randomized, cross-over trial. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Objective The plant-based diet index (PDI) has been proposed as a gauge of diet healthfulness. This study assessed the relationship between the PDI, and the “healthful” hPDI and “unhealthful” uPDI, and weight loss in the context of Mediterranean and vegan diets in overweight adults.
Kahleova H, Smith R, Fischer I, Brennan H, Znayenko-Miller T, Holubkov R, Barnard ND.   +6 more
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Association between plant-based diets and the risk of coronary heart disease predicted using the Framingham Risk Score in Korean men: data from the HEXA cohort study [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health
OBJECTIVES This study investigated the potential correlation between 4 plant-based diet indices and the predicted risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Korean men using the Framingham Risk Score. METHODS The study included 12,356 men participants (aged
Khongorzul Ganbat, Bayarmaa Nasan Ulzii, Sangah Shin   +2 more
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Plant-based diets, genetic predisposition and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

BMC Medicine, 2023
Background Diets rich in plant-based foods are associated with lower risks of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), while the prospective evidence is limited.
Yanling Lv, Shuang Rong, Yan Deng, Wei Bao, Yang Xia, Liangkai Chen   +5 more
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The Association Between Plant-Based Diet Indices and Obesity and Metabolic Diseases in Chinese Adults: Longitudinal Analyses From the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
BackgroundA wide range of health benefits are associated with consuming a diet high in plant-based foods. Diet quality can be accurately assessed using plant-based diet indices, however there is inadequate evidence that plant-based diet indices are ...
Bo Chen, Bo Chen, Jingjing Zeng, Jingjing Zeng, Minghui Qin, Minghui Qin, Wenlei Xu, Wenlei Xu, Zhaoxia Zhang, Zhaoxia Zhang, Xiaying Li, Shaoyong Xu, Shaoyong Xu   +12 more
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Association of Body Mass Index and Plant-Based Diet with Cognitive Impairment among Older Chinese Adults: A Prospective, Nationwide Cohort Study

Nutrients, 2022
To examine the association of body mass index (BMI) and a plant-based diet (PBD) with cognitive impairment in older adults, this cohort study used data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), a national, community-based, longitudinal, prospective study in China.
Fang Liang, Jialin Fu, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Yechuang Wang, Nan Qiu, Kai Ding, Jing Zeng, Justin Moore, Rui Li   +8 more
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