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. 2025 May 30;20:551. doi: 10.1186/s13018-025-05896-9

Table 2.

Subgroup analysis of dietary pattern and osteoporosis risk by country

Dietary patterns Geographic location Number of studies Pooled Odd ratio
(95% CI)
Heterogeneity
P value I2 (%) P valuea Model
DII Korea 2 1.31 (1.14, 1.51)  < 0.001 0.00 0.760 Random
US 4 2.0 5 (1.61, 2.61)  < 0.001 1.8 0.383 Random
hPDI China 2 1.00 (0.36, 2.77) 1.000 84.0 0.010 Random
Others 2 1.16 (1.05, 1.27) 0.003 0.00 0.729 Random
PDI China 2 0.93 (0.56, 1.55) 0.781 47.5 0.167 Random
uPDI China 2 1.80 (0.93, 3.50) 0.081 64.3 0.090 Random
Others 2 1.23 (0.99, 1.53) 0.063 45.4 0.176 Random
Western/Unhealthy Korea 2 1.25 (0.84, 1.88) 0.766 88.9 0.003 Random
Others 3 1.17 (0.61, 2.23) 0.638 72.5 0.026 Random
Prudent/Healthy Korea 2 0.59 (0.48, 0.72)  < 0.001 0.00 0.870 Random

DII Dietary Inflammatory Index, PDI plant-based diet index, hPDI healthy plant-based diet index, uPDI unhealthy plant-based diet index, CI, confidence interval

aP value for heterogeneity within each subgroup