Vegetarian diets and risk of hospitalisation or death with diabetes in British adults: results from the EPIC-Oxford study

25 February 2019

Nutrition and Diabetes

The global prevalence of diabetes is high and rapidly increasing. Some previous studies have found that vegetarians might have a lower risk of diabetes than non-vegetarians. This paper examined the association between vegetarianism and risk of hospitalisation or death with diabetes in a large, prospective cohort study of British adults. Low meat and non-meat eaters were found to have a lower risk of diabetes, in part because of a lower BMI