Correction to: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2014) 68, 178–183; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2013.248

Since the publication of this article, the authors have noticed several errors in the text.

The title of Table 4 should be: ‘Serum lipid profiles of female participants by diet group’.

In the Results section of the Abstract, the units in last two sentences should be corrected to read: ‘In males, the mean serum total cholesterol concentration was 0.87 mmol/l lower in vegans than in meat-eaters; after further adjustment for BMI this difference was 0.76 mmol/l. In females, the difference in total cholesterol between these two groups was 0.6 mmol/l, and after further adjustment for BMI was 0.55 mmol/l.’

In the last paragraph of the Results section, the units should be corrected in two sentences to read: ‘In men, compared with meat-eaters, vegans had a 0.76 mmol/l lower mean total cholesterol concentration, a 0.68 mmol/l lower mean non-HDL cholesterol concentration and a 14 mg/dl lower mean apolipoprotein B concentration (P for pairwise comparison <0.001, for all). In women, compared with meat-eaters, vegans had a 0.55 mmol/l lower mean total cholesterol concentration, a 0.40 mmol/l lower mean non-HDL cholesterol concentration and a 9 mg/dl lower mean apolipoprotein B concentration (P for pairwise comparison <0.001, for all).’

The authors apologise for any inconvenience caused.