Study: Women on this diet are 33% more likely to break a hip

A two-decade cohort study has found women who follow one particular diet have a higher risk of breaking a hip.

The study, from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, compared vegetarians, pescatarians and meat eaters, and found vegetarian women ages 35 to 69 were 33% more likely to experience a hip fracture than those who regularly ate meat.

Pescatarians and women who only occasionally ate meat did see the same fracture risk, the study, published in BMC Medicine, found.