有些流行病学研究者提示,素食有降低血压的效果,我们也报告了在素食的基督复临派教徒与荤食的摩门教徒之间,收缩压相差5～6mmHg,舒张压相差2～3mmHg的差异。这两个宗教团体的比较表明,血压的差异是由于膳食引起,而不是生活方式特征的其他因素所引起。因为人群横断面调查仅提供了膳食和血压之间有因果关系的线索,为此我们进行了 Some epidemiologists have suggested that vegetarian foods have the effect of lowering blood pressure. We also report a difference in systolic blood pressure of 5 to 6 mmHg and a diastolic blood pressure of 2 to 3 mmHg between vegetarian Adventist and Mormons Mormons The difference. A comparison of these two religious communities shows that the difference in blood pressure is caused by other factors such as diet-induced rather than life-style characteristics. Because population cross-sectional surveys provide only clues as to the causal link between diet and blood pressure, we conducted