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Higher healthy Plant-based Diet Index (hPDI) scores at baseline were associated with lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting glucose, triglycerides and total:HDL cholesterol ratio and with higher HDL cholesterol; similar associations were observed for the overall PDI, study finds

Study that followed 29,517 residents without diabetes at baseline showed a U-shaped association between total protein intake and risk of incident type 2 diabetes, which was reaffirmed by a dose-response meta-analysis. Moreover, plant protein was inversely associated with the risk.

New study from the UK calls into question the assumption that cannabis use necessarily increases the risk of psychotic disorder. There was no significant association between any measure of cannabis use at baseline and transition to psychosis, the persistence of symptoms, or functional outcome.