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Did you read the article? The analysis and results treats then separately: "processed meat: you would increase your risk by 0.4% over 10 years, 1.02% over 20
by eeh 7y ago
Did you read the article?
The analysis and results treats then separately:
"processed meat: you would increase your risk by 0.4% over 10 years, 1.02% over 20 years and 1.74% over 30 years
red meat: 0.17% over 10 years, 0.41% over 20 years and 0.62% over 30 years"
> The additives in the latter have been shown definitively to do harm, whereas there is less evidence about the former.
The article is evidence of their relative risk, and it does sound consistent with your prior.
- GordonS 7y agoI haven't read the article yet, but going from the headline, I certainly assumed they were claiming the same/similar risk for both red and processed meat. From the summary you gave, it certainly does seem like a click-baity headline. Personally I would have hoped for better from the NHS (even if I wouldn't have expected it).
- simonh 7y agoI’m sorry, but that’s simply an unwarranted assumption.
- GordonS 7y agoEh? The figures given are clear (and yes, I've read the article by now) - the risk associated with processed meat is much greater than that with red meat.
- eeh 7y agoI believe the following assumption was the one simonh disagreed could be made: "I certainly assumed they were claiming the same/similar risk for both red and processed meat" I agree. Headlines should be suggestive of content, but cannot contain all the nuances.
- simonh 7y agoThe assumption I’m referring to is just the thing you said, in your post, that you assumed.
- GordonS 7y agoAh, sorry, I see what you mean now. It was the part where you said "unwarranted" that confused me, as the thing I said was warranted by the headline, the very thing I said was the basis for the assumption.
- eeh 7y agoThe NHS Choices blog's purpose is to critique the news's coverage of health research. It uses excerpts of other newspaper's articles to refer to those articles.
- droithomme 7y agoI noticed the risk is higher for poultry than for red meat. So people eating poultry only can reduce their risk by switching from poultry to steak.
- eeh 7y agoThis articles refers only to CVD risk, not total morbidity which is influenced by multiple risk factors.