Associations of unprocessed and processed meat intake with mortality and cardiovascular disease in 21 countries [Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study]: a prospective cohort study.
Romaina IqbalMahshid DehghanAndrew MenteSumathy RangarajanAndreas WielgoszAlvaro AvezumPamela SerónKhalid F AlHabibPatricio Lopez-JaramilloSumathi SwaminathanNoushin MohammadifardKatarzyna ZatońskaHu BoRavi Prasad VarmaOmar RahmanAfzalhussein M YusufaliYin LuNoorhassim IsmailAnnika RosengrenNeşe ImeryuzKaren YeatesJephat ChifambaAntonio DansRajesh KumarLiu XiaoyunLungi TsolekileRasha KhatibRafael DiazKoon TeoSalim YusufPublished in: The American journal of clinical nutrition (2021)
In a large multinational prospective study, we did not find significant associations between unprocessed red meat and poultry intake and mortality or major CVD. Conversely, a higher intake of processed meat was associated with a higher risk of mortality and major CVD.