The Netherlands Cohort Study – Meat Investigation Cohort; a population-based cohort over-represented with vegetarians, pescetarians and low meat consumers

Table 6 Time on diet by meat consumption status ^a

	Men					Women
	All confirmed vegetarians, pescetarians and low meat consumers from the total cohort				Self-reported vegetarians	All confirmed vegetarians, pescetarians and low meat consumers from the total cohort				Self-reported vegetarians
	Vegetarian	Pescetarian	1 day/wk			Vegetarian	Pescetarian	1 day/wk
	n = 217	n = 152	n = 482	P ^b	n = 416	n = 485	n = 242	n = 914	P ^b	n = 734
Time of adherence to special eating habit (%)
≤ 5 yrs	9%^c	28%	27%	<0.001	18%	16%	33%	27%	<0.001	21%
6–10 yrs	23%	27%	22%		23%	25%	27%	26%		25%
11–15 yrs	18%	13%	14%		16%	16%	16%	14%		16%
≥16 yrs	44%	25%	23%		34%	37%	17%	19%		30%
No data available	7%	7%	14%		9%	6%	7%	14%		9%

^aExcluding prevalent cancer cases at baseline.
^bP values are derived from a chi2 tests comparing vegetarians, pescetarians, 1 day/wk meat consumers.
^c% of total vegetarians, all such values.

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