Meat consumption and mortality - results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

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Authors

Sabine Rohrmann · Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine

Kim Overvad · Aarhus University

H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita · National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

Marianne Uhre Jakobsen · Aarhus University

Rikke Egeberg · Danish Cancer Society

Anne Tjønneland · Danish Cancer Society

Laura Nailler

Abstract

The results of our analysis support a moderate positive association between processed meat consumption and mortality, in particular due to cardiovascular diseases, but also to cancer.

Topics & Keywords

Nutritional Studies and Diet Diet and metabolism studies Cancer Risks and Factors

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Medicine

Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 63-63

DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-63

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