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What does a 13% increased risk of death mean?

Submitted by david on Wed, 21/03/2012 - 4:22pm

A recent study from Harvard reported that people who ate more red meat died at a greater rate. This provoked some wonderful media coverage: the Daily Express said that ‘if people cut down the amount of red meat they ate – say from steaks and beefburgers –to less than half a serving a day, 10 per cent of all deaths could be avoided, they say”.

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