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   From: stupid.liberals@abc.com   
      
   Vegetarians, vegans and pescetarians have a lower risk of   
   coronary heart disease (CHD), a recent study published in the   
   BMJ found, but vegans and vegetarians, specifically, are also   
   more at risk for stroke than meat-eaters.   
      
   Researchers from the University of Oxford conducted the study   
   after tracking 48,188 people, with an average age of 45, for 18   
   years.   
      
   The participants – who were grouped by meat-eaters (24,428),   
   pescetarians (7,506), and vegetarians, including vegans (16,254)   
   – had no history of CHD or stroke.   
      
   After the 18-year study period, researchers reported 2,820 cases   
   of CHD and 1,072 cases of stroke during the study period —   
   “including 519 cases of ischaemic stroke (when a blood clot   
   blocks the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain) and 300 cases   
   of hemorrhagic stroke,” according to a press release regarding   
   the findings.   
      
   After accounting for medical history, physical activity and   
   smoking, among other factors that could influence the results,   
   they determined pescetarians had a 13 percent lower risk of CHD,   
   while vegetarians had a 22 percent lower risk.   
      
   “The difference may be at least partly due to lower BMI and   
   lower rates of high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and   
   diabetes linked to these diets,” the authors concluded,   
   according to the release.   
      
   That said, researchers also found vegetarians and vegans had a   
   20 percent higher risk of stroke than their meat-eating   
   counterparts, which is “equivalent to three more cases of stroke   
   per 1,000 people over 10 years, mainly due to a higher rate of   
   hemorrhagic stroke.”   
      
   There was not a significantly higher rate of stroke for   
   pescetarians.   
      
   Though an exact reason has not been established, those who   
   follow vegetarian and vegan diets “had lower circulating   
   cholesterol and levels of several nutrients than meat-eaters,”   
   such as vitamin B12, they wrote of a possible cause.   
      
   “The higher relative risk of stroke among vegetarians is a new   
   contribution to the body of evidence on the health effects of a   
   vegetarian diet,” Mark Lawrence and Sarah McNaughton, professors   
   at Deakin University in Australia, wrote in an editorial   
   addressing the findings. They were not involved in the study.   
      
   The researchers warned that the study was observational, saying   
   “the findings may not be widely applicable because they were   
   mainly based on white Europeans,” per the release.   
      
   "It is based on results from just one study and the increase is   
   modest relative to meat-eaters," Lawrence and McNaughton added.   
      
   "Relevance to vegetarians worldwide must also be considered,"   
   they said. "Participants were all from the U.K. where dietary   
   patterns and other lifestyle behaviors are likely very different   
   from those prevalent in low and middle-income countries where   
   most of the world's vegetarians live."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/health/vegetarians-vegans-stroke-risk   
      
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