Association of plant, animal protein with long-term mortality

JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE

 

What The Study Did: Dietary information from more than 400,000 U.S. adults was used to look at the association between consuming plant and animal protein and the risk of death over 16 years.

Authors: Jiaqi Huang, Ph.D., and Demetrius Albanes, M.D., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, are the corresponding authors.

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(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2790)

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