Table 1.

Summary findings for dietary fiber in prospective observational studies in Reynolds et al., The Lancet 2019.

Outcome	Number of Studies	Number of Cases	Person-years	Relative Risk (95% CI)
All-cause mortality	10	80139	12.3 million	.85 (.79–.91)
Cardiovascular disease mortality	7	15433	10.7 million	.77 (.71–.83)
Cardiovascular disease incidence	8	12423	2.1 million	.76 (.68–.85)
Coronary heart disease mortality	10	7243	6.9 million	.69 (.60–.81)
Coronary heart disease incidence	9	7155	2.7 million	.76 (.69–.83)
Stroke mortality	2	1113	1.3 million	.80 (.56–1.14)
Stroke incidence	9	13134	4.5 million	.82 (.75–.90)
Type 2 diabetes incidence	17	48468	6.9 million	.84 (.78–.90)