Similarly, the VEG group had a significantly lower HOMA-IR ( Table 2 ) and reduced risk for IR of borderline significance ( Table 3 ) compared to the non-VEG group after adjusting for age, menopause, waist, glucose, and triglyceride and activity with the exclusion of diabetic cases.
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Reduced risk for metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance associated with ovo-lacto-vegetarian behavior in female Buddhists: a case-control study.
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The pure vegetarians also had reduced risk for the MetS, but this did not reach statistical significance, probably because of its small sample size ( n = 22).