Anthropometric and physiologic characteristics in white and British Indian vegetarians and nonvegetarians in the UK Biobank.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A detailed description of anthropometric and physiologic characteristics of persons in different diet groups is lacking.

Objective

We aimed to perform cross-sectional analyses of diet group with anthropometric and physiologic characteristics in a large cohort in the United Kingdom.

Design

The UK Biobank recruited ∼500,000 middle-aged participants throughout the United Kingdom in 2006-2010. Anthropometric indexes (height, weight, waist and hip circumference, body composition) and other physiologic characteristics (heel bone mineral density, grip strength, blood pressure, pulse rate) were measured following standardized protocols. We estimated the age-adjusted means of each characteristic in 6 diet groups (198,166 regular meat eaters, 199,784 low meat eaters,

SUBMITTER: Tong TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5985736 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature