Men taking the erectile dysfunction and enlarged prostate drug were 33% more likely to develop primary open-angle glaucoma, according to a recent study.
Don’t worry, in absolute numbers the risk is 3,93 % compared to 3,16 % for non-users (5year). Just looking at the raw percent in the article make it seem like it gives you a 33% risk - hate articles like that.
Same deal with cancer increases from different activities.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Smoking is still a substantial increase though. Plus the fact that a minority of smokers get lung cancer, but 90% of people with lung cancer were smokers.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Eating 50g of cured meats every day raises the risk from about 5% to about 6% chance of getting certain gastrointestinal/colorectal cancers, compared to someone who never eats cured meats. A couple different ways to state this:
1% of cured meat eaters will develop cancer that they wouldn’t have otherwise developed, by eating cured meat.
There is a 20% increase in risk of cancer from eating cured meat.
Cured meat eaters who have cancer have approximately a 16% chance of having gotten the cancer from the meat they eat.
But it’s not negligible. And the causal connection is pretty strongly proven.
Never eat sausage or pepperoni, or have a slight increase in cancer risk? I’ll take the meats.
I’m sure it’s cumulative, so of course I’ll not eat like a stick of pepperoni every day, but once in a while won’t appreciably increase my risk. (I had one sausage and one pepperoni piece of pizza today for lunch, in fact.)
I know its just I have a 50/50 shot of getting cancer if I live like a monk and avoid carcinogenic foods, or i can eat what I enjoy and makes my life fulfilling knowing my risk is probably like 10% higher overall.
I think the fact that I don’t drink or smoke at all makes up for it. I can enjoy cured and smoked meats to my hearts content.
Don’t worry, in absolute numbers the risk is 3,93 % compared to 3,16 % for non-users (5year). Just looking at the raw percent in the article make it seem like it gives you a 33% risk - hate articles like that.
Same deal with cancer increases from different activities.
“Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!” When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Smoking is still a substantial increase though. Plus the fact that a minority of smokers get lung cancer, but 90% of people with lung cancer were smokers.
Eating 50g of cured meats every day raises the risk from about 5% to about 6% chance of getting certain gastrointestinal/colorectal cancers, compared to someone who never eats cured meats. A couple different ways to state this:
But it’s not negligible. And the causal connection is pretty strongly proven.
Never eat sausage or pepperoni, or have a slight increase in cancer risk? I’ll take the meats.
I’m sure it’s cumulative, so of course I’ll not eat like a stick of pepperoni every day, but once in a while won’t appreciably increase my risk. (I had one sausage and one pepperoni piece of pizza today for lunch, in fact.)
Yeah I bet its both dose and consistency that do it. I can’t live without cured meat, cheese, and campfire bread while backpacking or camping…
I know its just I have a 50/50 shot of getting cancer if I live like a monk and avoid carcinogenic foods, or i can eat what I enjoy and makes my life fulfilling knowing my risk is probably like 10% higher overall.
I think the fact that I don’t drink or smoke at all makes up for it. I can enjoy cured and smoked meats to my hearts content.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
Fox!