Association of vegetarian diet with inflammatory biomarkers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Vegetarian diets contain various anti-inflammatory components. We aimed to investigate the effects of vegetarianism on inflammatory biomarkers when compared with omnivores.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Setting

Literature search was conducted in Science Direct, Proquest, MEDLINE and Google Scholar up to June 2016. Summary estimates and corresponding 95 % CI were derived via the DerSimonian and Laird method using random effects, subgroup analyses were run to find the source of heterogeneity and a fixed-effect model examined between-subgroup heterogeneity.

Subjects

Studies were included if they evaluated effects of any type of vegetarianism compared with omnivores on circulating levels of inflammatory biomarkers. No restriction was made in

SUBMITTER: Haghighatdoost F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261540 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature