TABLE 1.

Description of reviewed studies of Indian vegetarians

Study, study design	Population	Location	Dietary data
The Indian Migration Study, 2006— Sib-pair study in industrial populations of 4 Indian cities	Participants from 4 geographical regions and 18 states across India: urban migrants, their spouses, and their rural-dwelling siblings; urban nonmigrants, their spouses, and their urban-dwelling siblings	Lucknow, Nagpur, Hyderabad, and Bangalore (n = 7067, mean age 40.8 y)	Validated interviewer-administered, 184-item semiquantitative FFQ
National Family Health Survey, 2005–2006— Survey on the lines of the Demographic and Health Surveys	Representative nationwide sample of participants across 29 states	Nationwide sample across 29 states: n = 124,385 women aged 15–49 y and 74,369 men aged 15–54 y residing in 109,041 households with 99% of the country's representative population	Diet and health information at individual level gathered by face-to-face interviews conducted in the respondents’ homes