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Well, maybe the vegans more often ride a bicycle than the other group because they care more about the environment.

EDIT: also have a look at the numbers: 65,000 people of which "nearly 2,000" were vegans, so only 3% of the sample. And they found "20 more cases per 1,000 people", so an increase by 2%. The study is likely to have an error margin of more than 3%. And the study "did not account for poor bone health or accidents".

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Not accounting for accidents seems inexcusable considering the subject matter. Why bother even spending the time writing this up? The downside is that a bunch of click bait “news” sites will pick this up and publish a load of nonsense without context.

That vegans - in the comparison to a conventional nutrition - take less of certain nutrients without food addition, is well-known. One can therefore ask why such a study is necessary. Possibly the chapter "Funding" of the study provides a hint: The work is supported by [...] Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health (Livestock, Environment, and People, LEAP 205212/Z/16/Z); see https://www.leap.ox.ac.uk/home.

EDIT: recently I watched "The Game Changers" (https://gamechangersmovie.com/) which shows a rather different view on our nutrition and its relation with health and environment, highly recommended.