Eating a plant-based diet doesn’t seem to make Greek adults more or less likely to get heart disease, no matter if the plants are healthy or not—because the data is too fuzzy to tell for sure.
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Eating a plant-based diet doesn’t seem to make Greek adults more or less likely to get heart disease, no matter if the plants are healthy or not—because the data is too fuzzy to tell for sure.
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The overall plant-based diet index (PDI), which does not distinguish between healthy and unhealthy plant foods, is not statistically significantly associated with cardiovascular disease risk in Greek adults, as the confidence intervals include the null value.
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Study: Quality of plant-based diets in relation to 10-year cardiovascular disease risk: the ATTICA cohort study
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