Vegans are 43 Percent More Likely to Suffer Bone Fractures, Study Shows
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Vegans are 43 percent more likely to suffer bone fractures, study shows:
Vegans may be significantly more likely to develop bone fractures than meat-eaters, a new study revealed.
The large, longitudinal study published Sunday in the journal BMC Medicine, revealed that there were 19.4 more cases of fractures in vegans and 4.1 more cases in vegetarians for every 1,000 people over 10 years.
"This is the first comprehensive study and the largest study to date to look at the risks of both total fractures (fractures occurring anywhere in the body) and fractures at different sites in people of different habitual dietary habits," the study's lead author, Tammy Tong, a nutritional epidemiologist at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, said in an email to CNN.
Journal Reference:
Tammy Y. N. Tong, Paul N. Appleby, Miranda E. G. Armstrong, et al. Vegetarian and vegan diets and risks of total and site-specific fractures: results from the prospective EPIC-Oxford study [open], BMC Medicine (DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01815-3)
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