| |
All confirmed vegetarians and low meat consumers from the total NLCS cohort
|
Random sample of meat consumers from the total NLCS cohortb
| | |
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Vegetarians
|
Pescetarians
|
1 day/wk
|
2–5 day/wk
|
6–7 day/wk
|
Remainderc
|
Total
|
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Men
|
Self-reported vegetarians
|
194 (47%)d
|
96 (23%)
|
71(17%)
|
5 (1%)
|
1 (0.3%)
|
49 (12%)
|
416
|
|
Non self-reported vegetarians
|
23 (0.5%)
|
56 (1%)
|
411 (9%)
|
1321 (28%)
|
2972 (62%)
|
N/A
| |
|
Total
|
217
|
152
|
482
|
1326
|
2973
|
49
| |
Women
|
Self-reported vegetarians
|
380 (52%)
|
151 (21%)
|
132 (18%)
|
7 (1%)
|
4 (0.6%)
|
60 (8%)
|
734
|
|
Non self-reported vegetarians
|
105 (2%)
|
91 (2%)
|
782 (15%)
|
1632 (31%)
|
2672 (51%)
|
N/A
| |
|
Total
|
485
|
242
|
914
|
1639
|
2676
|
60
| |
Total
| |
702
|
394
|
1396
|
2965
|
5649
|
109
| |
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aExcluding prevalent cancer cases at baseline.
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bSampling rate is 8.3%.
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cSelf-reported vegetarians eating meat >1 day/wk and outside random sample (see also step 6 Additional file 1: Figure S1).
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dPercentage of self-reported vegetarians, all such values.