Paul Saladino· MD
We found no evidence that following a vegetarian diet or semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all-cause mortality.
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We found no evidence that following a vegetarian diet or semi-vegetarian diet or a pesco-vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all-cause mortality.
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so this is 243 000 participants and the conclusions are that there was no significant difference in mortality between Pesco vegetarians and semi-vegetarians versus regular meat eaters so Pesco vegetarians semi-vegetarians did not live longer than meat eaters we found no evidence that following a vegetarian diet semi-vegetarian diet or Pesco vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all cause mortality
we found no evidence that following a vegetarian diet semi-vegetarian diet or Pesco vegetarian diet has an independent protective effect on all cause mortality