Thomas J. Waterfall

Healthful Plant-Based Diet Index and Physical Activity Are Associated with Adiposity and the Triglyceride-HDL Axis but Not Apolipoprotein B: NHANES 2007–2016

Background: Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is the most direct indicator of the circulating atherogenic particle burden. Randomized trials indicate that vegetarian and vegan diets lower apoB. However, the association between population-level variation in plant-based diet quality, alone or with physical activity, and apoB has n...