ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2013
Meat consumption, diabetes, and its complications.
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104 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 245 citations in OpenAlex.
- Plant-based diets and risk of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Diet, Microbes, and Cancer Across the Tree of Life: a Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2022Pooled it
- The Isocaloric Substitution of Plant-Based and Animal-Based Protein in Relation to Aging-Related Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Intake of Unprocessed and Processed Meat and the Association with Cardiovascular Disease: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- National Dietary Guidelines of Greece for children and adolescents: a tool for promoting healthy eating habits.Public health nutrition · 2019Guideline
- Role of diet in type 2 diabetes incidence: umbrella review of meta-analyses of prospective observational studies.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019Pooled it
- Mediterranean Diet Pyramid: A Proposal for Italian People. A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies to Derive Serving Sizes.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions targeting conscious determinants of human behaviour to reduce the demand for meat: a systematic review with qualitative comparative analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Pooled it
- Restructuring physical micro-environments to reduce the demand for meat: a systematic review and qualitative comparative analysis.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2018Pooled it
- Associations of Diet and Physical Activity with Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- A summary of meat intakes and health burdens.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Consumption of meat is associated with higher fasting glucose and insulin concentrations regardless of glucose and insulin genetic risk scores: a meta-analysis of 50,345 Caucasians.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2015Pooled it
- Red meat, dietary heme iron, and risk of type 2 diabetes: the involvement of advanced lipoxidation endproducts.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2013Pooled it
- Fava bean and buckwheat are sustainable food sources which support satiety and beneficially modulate several biomarkers, bacteria and metabolites associated with human health.European journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
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- Differences in plant- and animal-based protein sources consumed across socioeconomic groups in The Netherlands and their associated environmental impact.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Dietary protein intake in relation to metabolic syndrome reversion: findings from the Tehran lipid and glucose study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Aptamer-CRISPR/Cas12a-Based Lateral Flow Technique for Visualized Rapid Detection of Endogenous Damage Factor Neu5Gc in Red Meat.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Comparison of Dietary Intake Among Rural Americans With and Without Diabetes.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2025Article
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Abstract
Several prospective studies have reported that risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is elevated in meat consumers, especially when processed meats are consumed. Elevated risks of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke in meat consumers have also been reported. In this overview, the evidence regarding meat consumption and the risk of diabetes, both type 1 diabetes (T1DM) and T2DM and their macro- and microvascular complications, is reviewed. For T2DM, we performed a new meta-analysis including publications up to October 2012. For T1DM, only a few studies have reported increased risks for meat consumers or for high intake of saturated fatty acids and nitrates and nitrites. For T2DM, CHD, and stroke, the evidence is strongest. Per 100 g of total meat, the pooled relative risk (RR) for T2DM is 1.15 (95 % CI 1.07-1.24), for (unprocessed) red meat 1.13 (95 % CI 1.03-1.23), and for poultry 1.04 (95 % CI 0.99-1.33); per 50 g of processed meat, the pooled RR is 1.32 (95 % CI 1.19-1.48). Hence, the strongest association regarding T2DM is observed for processed (red) meat. A similar observation has been made for CHD. For stroke, however, a recent meta-analysis shows moderately elevated risks for meat consumers, for processed as well as for fresh meats. For the microvascular complications of diabetes, few prospective data were available, but suggestions for elevated risks can be derived from findings on hyperglycemia and hypertension. The results are discussed in the light of the typical nutrients and other compounds present in meat--that is, saturated and trans fatty acids, dietary cholesterol, protein and amino acids, heme-iron, sodium, nitrites and nitrosamines, and advanced glycation end products. In light of these findings, a diet moderate to low in red meat, unprocessed and lean, and prepared at moderate temperatures is probably the best choice from the public health point of view.
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