According to a study, men and women who adhere to a vegetarian diet have a risk with a higher hip fracture compared to normal meat consumers.
It was found that vegetarian women have an increased risk of hip fracture, but it is not clear why, and the examination of the effects that has a vegetarian diet on men is not clear and small.
For this study, the data was analyzed to 413,914 men and women, and the results indicate that vegetarian men also have an increased risk of hip fracture compared to men who regularly consume meat. Some of the factors that the vegetarians could take a higher risk of hip fractures have also been identified.
The participants were part of the British BioKank study, which were provided with information about nutrition and grouped as regular meat eaters that consumed meat five times or more per week, or occasionally meat eaters who eat meat less than 5 times a week, or as a pescavarian, but not meat; Or a vegetarian dairy products, no meat or fish.
The data on were connected to hospital files and in the monitoring period were connected to hip fracture cases.
The study showed:
- There were 3503 hip fracture cases of 413,914 people, an average rate of less than 1%.
- Although the general risk of experiencing a hip fracture was not high, the relative risk between normal meat eaters and vegetarians was significant.
- Compared to regular meat eaters, regardless of gender, the vegetarians had a 50% higher risk.
- No difference was observed in the risk between regular and occasional meat eaters.
- A moderate higher risk of 8% was observed in pescatians compared to normal meat meals, but this was not a significant difference.
It was predicted that an average of 6.5 occasional meat eaters would suffer from a hip fracture, an average of 6.5 regular meat eaters suffer from a hip fracture, an average of 7 pescatarians under a hip fracture and an average of 9.5 cases in vegetarian would suffer a hip.
Hip fractures are an increasing problem in an aging society and can lead to incapable health and a poor quality of life.
This study shows that vegetarians have a 50% higher risk of hip fracture compared to meat eating, but this only leads to 3 other hip fractures/1000 people in 10 years.
The health benefits of a vegetarian diet, such as a reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer, can still compensate for an increase in the risk of hip fractures.
The analysis shows that a low BMI could be a significant factor for the higher risk of hip fractures.
Vegetarians were also about 17% less likely to meet recommendations for protein intake compared to meat meals. The most important snack bars from the study are that vegetarians have to ensure that they consume a balanced diet with adequate protein intake and keep a healthy BMI.
