Table 1.

Hip fracture rates among 33 208 Caucasian males and females by gender and vegetarian status^*, Adventist Health Study-2, 2002–2007

	No. of participants	Hip fracture cases	Mean age (years) at fracture*	Age-adjusted rate per 1000 person-years
Overall	33 208	305	76·8	1·93
Men	14 044	127	76·3	1·91
Women	19 164	178	77·2	1·94
Non-vegetarians†	15 831	120	75·2	1·60
Vegetarians (including vegans)†	17 300	184	77·8	2·21
Vegetarians (excluding vegans)†	13 524	130	78·0	1·99
Vegans†	3776	54	77·2	2·99

^*Mean age calculation excluded ninteen hip fracture cases identified from the National Death Index database.

^†Seventy-seven individuals were not classified as vegetarians or non-vegetarians due to missing values.