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but when they take the people out of the general population who are having healthy behaviors and they compare vegetarian death rates called the death rate and vegetarians to those in the general population this is in the UK who have healthy behaviors the rate of death is the same
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what's interesting about this study is that they compared 21 000 men and women aged 16 to 89 years and they looked uh of those 29 000 were 8 000 vegetarians okay so the smrs this is the standardized mortality ratios for all causes of death were significantly below the reference level of 100 in both studies 52 based on 101 131 deaths on the oxford vegetarian study etc etc for all causes of death the drr which is the death rate ratios for vegetarians compared with non-vegetarians was close to one in both studies so what this study is showing us is that british vegetarians have low mortality compared with the general population
the uk-based vegetarians and comparable men non-vegetarians have similar all-cause mortality so this is again a corroboration of what they found in the uk shopper study that there was no difference in the all-cause mortality