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Comment on “Plant-based diet and risk of arthritis: a nationwide cohort study of the Chinese elderly population” by H. Zhang, J. Liang, Y. Han, J. Tian, Y. Tu, R. Fan, W. Zhu, Z. Zhang and H. Zhao, Food Func., 2025, 16, 6576

Tong Xin, ORCID logo ab   Che Wang,c   Cuiting Gong,ab   Jingjing He,ab   Xiaoping Wangab  and  Aijing Liu*abd  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, P.R. China
E-mail: ajliu@hebmu.edu.cn

b Hebei International Joint Research Center on Rheumatic Diseases, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, P.R. China

c Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, P.R. China

d Hebei Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, P.R. China

Abstract

A stratified perspective is essential to understand the divergent impacts of plant-based diets on osteoarthritis risk in older populations.

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https://doi.org/10.1039/D5FO05090A
Article type
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Submitted
26 Nov 2025
Accepted
09 Feb 2026
First published
24 Feb 2026
This article is Open Access
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Food Funct., 2026, Advance Article

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Comment on “Plant-based diet and risk of arthritis: a nationwide cohort study of the Chinese elderly population” by H. Zhang, J. Liang, Y. Han, J. Tian, Y. Tu, R. Fan, W. Zhu, Z. Zhang and H. Zhao, Food Func., 2025, 16, 6576

T. Xin, C. Wang, C. Gong, J. He, X. Wang and A. Liu, Food Funct., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D5FO05090A

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