Degree of adherence to plant-based diet and total and cause-specific mortality: prospective cohort study in the Million Veteran Program

• Main Authors: Dong D Wang (Author), Yanping Li (Author), Xuan-Mai T Nguyen (Author), Rebecca J Song (Author), Yuk-Lam Ho (Author), Frank B Hu (Author), Walter C Willett (Author), Peter Wilson (Author), Kelly Cho (Author), J Michael Gaziano (Author), Luc Djoussé (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: To examine the association between adherence to plant-based diets and mortality. Design: Prospective study. We calculated a plant-based diet index (PDI) by assigning positive scores to plant foods and reverse scores to animal foods. We also created a healthful PDI (hPDI) and an u...