{"id":3543,"date":"2025-12-15T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/?post_type=publicatie&#038;p=3543"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:14:43","slug":"vegetarian-diet-and-kidney-function-in-women-and-men-from-different-ethnic-groups-the-healthy-life-in-an-urban-setting-helius-study","status":"publish","type":"publicatie","link":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/publicatie\/vegetarian-diet-and-kidney-function-in-women-and-men-from-different-ethnic-groups-the-healthy-life-in-an-urban-setting-helius-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian diet and kidney function in women and men from different ethnic groups: The HEalthy Life in an Urban Setting (HELIUS) study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Objectives:&nbsp;<\/strong>A vegetarian diet may benefit kidney function. However, the sex-specific association of adherence to a vegetarian diet and change in kidney function, and its potential underlying mechanisms remain to be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Methods:&nbsp;<\/strong>Our observational study included baseline and follow-up data on vegetarian diet adherence and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) from Dutch, South-Asian Surinamese, African Surinamese, Turkish, and Moroccan participants from Healthy Life in an Urban Setting, a multiethnic prospective cohort in Amsterdam. The median time between baseline and follow-up was 81 (70, 95) months. Vegetarian diet adherence was determined through a questionnaire and intake of dietary components was calculated using the food frequency questionnaire. The sex-specific association between vegetarian diet adherence and change in eGFR and albumin-creatinine ratio (ACR) was assessed with linear regression analysis. To explore whether associations were consistent by ethnic group, we stratified the groups of women and men by ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results:&nbsp;<\/strong>Among 5,776 women and 4,443 men (median age: 48 [38, 55] and 48 [37, 56], respectively), the median eGFR was 102 (89, 112) and 101 (89, 111) at baseline and 92 (80, 104) and 93 (80, 103) at follow-up. We did not find an association between vegetarian diet adherence and eGFR or ACR change for both sexes. However, a 1 g\/day higher fiber intake at baseline was associated with a lower decrease in eGFR of 0.10 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.02, 0.17) in women and 0.07 (95% CI 0.00, 0.15) in men. Moreover, a 1 g\/day higher intake of processed meat intake at baseline was associated with a 0.09 (95% CI 0.04, 0.14) higher increase in ACR in women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:&nbsp;<\/strong>We found no evidence that vegetarian diet adherence was associated with a slower kidney function decline for both sexes across ethnic groups. Higher fiber intake and lower processed meat intake (women only) were associated with slower kidney function decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives:&nbsp;A vegetarian diet may benefit kidney function. However, the sex-specific association of adherence to a vegetarian diet and change in kidney function, and its potential underlying mechanisms remain to be established. Methods:&nbsp;Our observational study included baseline and follow-up data on vegetarian diet adherence and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) from Dutch, South-Asian Surinamese, African Surinamese, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"publications_year":[147],"thema":[42],"class_list":["post-3543","publicatie","type-publicatie","status-publish","hentry","publications_year-147","thema-cardiovascular-disease"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publicatie"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publications_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications_year?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"thema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliusstudy.nl\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thema?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}