Quek J, Lim G, Lim W, et al. 2021

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The Association of Plant-Based Diet With Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Prospect Cohort Studies.

Quek J, Lim G, Lim W, Ng C, So W, Toh J, Pan X, Chin Y, Muthiah M, Chan S, Foo R, Yip J, Neelakantan N, Chong M, Loh P, Chew N

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

2021

8

756810

Meta-analysis or Systematic Review

Critically low

Only original articles in the English language prospective cohort studies involving vegan or vegetarian participants or studies that assessed the plant-based diet of the subjects using various PDIs such as healthful PDI (hPDI) and unhealthful PDI (uPDI) with reported outcomes on cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular disease, or stroke events

Conference abstracts, reviews, commentaries, and editorials; (1) studies that focused on single food groups such as vegetables, beans, nuts, or specific cruciferous vegetables that did not reflect a major part of the diet; (2) studies that used a priori indices such as healthy eating index, alternate Mediterranean diet score, and dietary approaches to stop hypertension; and (3) studies which did not provide outcomes of interests in the hazard ratio (HR)

This meta-analysis aimed to consolidate updated evidence and provide a more robust estimate of the overall effect of adherence to a plant-based diet on cardiovascular mortality, CVD, and stroke outcomes in hazard ratio.

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