Extended essay: To what extent does a plant-based diet lower the risk of coronary artery disease?
disease solely because of their plant based diet, but because of the other risk factors of
which they lack.20
18 Jane Higdon,‘’Vitamin B12’’, Linus Pauling Institute, http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/vitamins/
vitamin-B12#food-sources, 26.10.2016
19 et al. Kwok T,’’Vitamin B-12 supplementation improves arterial function in vegetarians with
subnormal vitamin B-12 status’’, US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22659999, 02.10.2016
20 Roland Phillips, ‘’Coronary heart disease mortality among Seventh-Day Adventists with differing
dietary habits’’, the American journal of clinical nutrition, http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/31/10/
S191.abstract?ijkey=18706be5e362ceac27ce659a27a82ac2364d4219&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha,
01.10.2016
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The Oxford Vegetarian study
Although the risk factors were adjusted for the Californian Seventh-day Adventists