White Rice and Reduced Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Risk

• Is white rice consumption a risk for metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2017-08
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 59
  • Heart Asia 9(2)
  • • Chayakrit Krittanawong
    • Anusith Tunhasiriwet
    • HongJu Zhang
    • Larry J Prokop
    • Sakkarin Chirapongsathorn
    • Tao Sun
    • Zhen Wang

  • PubMed: 29467837
  • DOI: 10.1136/heartasia-2017-010909

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Risk

  • High evidence

  Higher white rice consumption has not been shown to be associated with increased risk of CHD, stroke and T2DM.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No