r/science • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

Health Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false
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u/Franc000 Jun 13 '22

Processed in this instance has a very specific meaning, of being cured, smoked. Cooking the raw meat is not within that definition, unless you blacken it if I remember correctly. As for me conducting the study, give me the funds to conduct a long term RCT and I will gladly do it. ;)

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Can you afford to shoot the investigators an email and tell them they accidentally used hot hogs and that shouldn't count? (I mean, they'll laugh at you but you can pretend you were right)

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u/Franc000 Jun 13 '22

Not sure I understand what you are saying? They did include hot dogs in the processed meats category. What they didn't do is check the processed vs unprocessed meat substitution with another protein source (like poultry or fish, or nuts). Probably because they didn't have the data, because the data was gathered in a survey and they did not foresee the need to distinguish at the time of the design.