Landmark 86/100
EPIC-Oxford — Vegetarian diet and stroke risk
In plain English
The Oxford arm of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC) followed nearly 50,000 UK adults — meat-eaters, fish-eaters, and vegetarians — for 18 years. Vegetarians showed about 20% lower ischaemic stroke risk than meat-eaters, although total stroke advantage was smaller once haemorrhagic stroke was counted.
Why it matters
Vegetarians had 20% lower ischaemic stroke risk than meat-eaters.
Informs: Stroke
Provenance
- Design
- Prospective cohort
- Sample size (n)
- 48,188
- Follow-up
- 18 years
- Peer-reviewed
- Yes
- Replications
- 1
- Funding
- Public / academic
- Funders
- UK Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK
- Institutions
- University of Oxford
decades.plus score
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Landmark 86/100
Caveats
Observational. Vegetarian group was small relative to meat-eaters; confidence intervals for stroke subtypes are wider than for CVD overall.
