The 2012 Arch Intern Med red meat-mortality study: Eating 234 g/d of red meat could reduce mortality by 23 percent
As we have seen in an earlier post on the China Study data ( ), which explored relationships hinted at by Denise Minger’s previous and highly perceptive analysis ( ), one can use a multivariate analysis tool like WarpPLS ( ) to explore relationships based on data reported by others. This is true even when the dataset available is fairly small. So I entered the data reported in the most recent (published online in March 2012) study looking at the relationship between red meat consumption and mortality into WarpPLS to do some exploratory analyses. I discussed the study in my previous post; it was conducted by Pan et al. (Frank B. Hu is the senior author) and published in the prestigious Archives of Internal Medicine ( ). The data I used is from Table 1 of the article; it reports figures on several variables along 5 quintiles, based on separate analyses of two samples, called “Health Professionals” and “Nurses Health” samples. The Health Professionals sample comprised males; the Nurses H...