A Prospective Study of Red Meat Consumption and Type 2 Diabetes in Middle-Aged and Elderly Women

The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the relation between red meat intake and incidence of type 2 diabetes.Over an average of 8.8 years, we evaluated 37,309 participants in the Women's Health Study aged >/=45 years who were free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes and completed validated semiquantitative food frequency questionnaires in 1993.During 326,876 person-years of follow-up, we documented 1,558 incident...