Adventist Health Study-2
In plain English
Loma Linda University has followed roughly 96,000 Seventh-Day Adventists — a population spanning vegan, vegetarian, pesco-vegetarian, semi-vegetarian and omnivore — for over a decade. Across cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and dementia, the more plant-based the diet, the lower the risk. Vegans showed the lowest all-cause mortality.
Why it matters
Vegans had the lowest mortality, ischaemic heart disease, T2D and cancer rates across the diet spectrum.
Informs: Cancer·Diabetes·Alzheimer's·Plant-Based Score·Blue Zones
Provenance
- Design
- Prospective cohort
- Sample size (n)
- 96,000
- Follow-up
- 12 years
- Peer-reviewed
- Yes
- Replications
- 5
- Funding
- Public / academic
- Funders
- US National Cancer Institute, World Cancer Research Fund
- Institutions
- Loma Linda University
decades.plus score
A transparent 0–100 weighted sum across six components. Higher scores reflect bigger, cleaner, more replicated work.
Caveats
Adventists differ from the general population in smoking, alcohol and church-community ties — some of the benefit may be lifestyle, not diet alone. Self-reported diet via FFQ has known measurement error.
