New Study: Vegan Bone Density Is The Same. What’s Going On?

Whole body bone mineral density and t-score results raise questions about previous research.
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Main Study:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1411003/full

This meta has of course been used to attack vegan diets.
https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/77/1/1/5146363

Higher BMI or weight in general increases bone density.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-association-between-BMI-and-lumbar-BMD-stratified-by-age-Sex-race-ethnicity-level_fig4_360603089

From this smaller one where it is most evident, BMD appeared lower in the vegetarians but then when adjusting for BMI the relationship disappeared. https://www.jandonline.org/article/S0002-8223(98)00172-2/abstract

Popping a study in the meta analysis that found a difference: 6 vegans that had a 3 point lower BMI, easily can be 15 lbs different but it was a small enough study for it not to be statistically significant.
https://www.jandonline.org/article/S0002-8223(00)00134-6/abstract

8 vegans in 1998 with lower BMI, still not stat sig diff for BMD even.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9664916/

Or this one, bigger with 28 vegans who had a BMI of 1 point lower, not stat sig for BMD?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446759/pdf/nutrients-07-03416.pdf

It also had a Buddhist nun study which found no difference.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00198-009-0916-z

The largest one was a 250 person Taiwanese study on more NUNS from 1997.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00005812

18 raw vegans and 18 controls. BMI was 5 whole points lower!! No mention of adjusting for BMI.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/486478

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