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FRIDAY, April 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Greater adherence to healthy plant-based diets and a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online April 25 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Hyunju Kim, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted analyses among 14,686 middle-aged adults. Four plant-based diet indices were used to characterize diets. The authors examined their correlation with incident CKD, while adjusting for confounding variables.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 4,343 incident CKD cases occurred during a median follow-up of 24 years. There was a correlation for greater adherence to a healthy plant-based diet (hazard ratio for quintile 5 versus quintile 1, 0.86) and a provegetarian diet (hazard ratio, 0.90) with lower risk for CKD; greater adherence to a less healthy plant-based diet correlated with elevated risk (hazard ratio for quintile 5 versus quintile 1, 1.11). Slower estimated glomerular filtration rate decline was seen in association with greater adherence to an overall plant-based diet and a healthy plant-based diet. A total of 4.1 percent of CKD was attributable to lower adherence to healthy plant-based diets.<\/p>\n
“Assuming a causal relationship, we found that a small but statistically significant percentage (4 percent) of CKD cases could have been avoided with higher adherence to plant-based diets,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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