Figure 2

Associations between dietary total iron, heme iron intake and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the included studies, comparing the highest category with the lowest. The risk estimate of dietary total iron intake for T2DM risk in the Iowa Women's Health Study (Lee et al [24]) was not directly reported, and thus this was pooled from the results of dietary non-heme iron intake and heme iron intake in this study. M, men; W, women.