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

• Egile Nagusiak: Dong D Wang (Egilea), Yanping Li (Egilea), Xuan-Mai T Nguyen (Egilea), Rebecca J Song (Egilea), Yuk-Lam Ho (Egilea), Frank B Hu (Egilea), Walter C Willett (Egilea), Peter Wilson (Egilea), Kelly Cho (Egilea), J Michael Gaziano (Egilea), Luc Djoussé (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Cambridge University Press, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...