Red and processed meat consumption and mortality: Dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 893-905

  Wang, Xia ^a   Lin, Xinying ^a   Ouyang, Ying Y ^b   Liu, Jun ^b   Zhao, Gang ^a   Pan, An ^b   Hu, Frank B ^c,d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Meat; Meta analyses; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MEAT; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RED MEAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEAT PRODUCTS; NEOPLASMS; RED MEAT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84960810904     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980015002062     Document Type: Review

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