White Rice and Reduced Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

• White rice consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: meta-analysis and systematic review.

  • 2012-03-15
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 384
  • BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 344(mar15 3)
  • • Emily A Hu
    • An Pan
    • Vasanti Malik
    • Qi Sun

  • PubMed: 22422870
  • DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e1454

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  for each serving per day increment of white rice intake, the relative risk of type 2 diabetes was 1.11 (1.08 to 1.14) (P for linear trend<0.001)

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  per serving/day increment