Landmark 86/100
Plant-based diets and risk of incident CKD — Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
In plain English
Drawing on 24 years of follow-up in the ARIC cohort, higher adherence to a plant-based diet was associated with a 14% lower incidence of chronic kidney disease. Substituting plant for animal protein appears to reduce filtration stress on the kidneys.
Why it matters
Higher plant-protein intake → 14% lower CKD incidence.
Informs: Kidney Disease
Provenance
- Design
- Prospective cohort
- Sample size (n)
- 14,686
- Follow-up
- 24 years
- Peer-reviewed
- Yes
- Replications
- 1
- Funding
- Public / academic
- Funders
- US NHLBI
- Institutions
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
decades.plus score
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Landmark 86/100
Caveats
Observational; plant-diet adherence correlates with other healthy behaviours. The protective association was strongest in those without baseline hypertension or diabetes.
