2Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond
4Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
5Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
6Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland JAMA. Published online May 10, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.4073
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DALLAS, Feb. 24, 2021 Postmenopausal women who ate high levels of plant protein had lower risks of premature death, cardiovascular disease and dementia-related death compared with women who ate less plant proteins, according to new research published today in the
Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.
Previous research has shown an association between diets high in red meat and cardiovascular disease risk, yet the data is sparse and inconclusive about specific types of proteins, the study authors say.
In this study, researchers analyzed data from more than 100,000 postmenopausal women (ages 50 to 79) who participated in the national Women s Health Initiative study between 1993 and 1998; they were followed through February 2017. At the time they enrolled in the study, participants completed questionnaires about their diet detailing how often they ate eggs, dairy, poultry, red meat, fish/shellfish and plant p