FERNANDA MORALES BERSTEIN, CAROLINA BORGES AND DEBORAH LAWLOR, MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC) INTEGRATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT AT UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL - WRITTEN EVIDENCE: FDO0017

Fernanda Morales Berstein; Maria C Borges; Debbie A Lawlor

FERNANDA MORALES BERSTEIN, CAROLINA BORGES AND DEBORAH LAWLOR, MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC) INTEGRATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT AT UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL - WRITTEN EVIDENCE: FDO0017

Fernanda Morales Berstein, Maria C Borges, Debbie A Lawlor

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 Although there are good reasons to believe ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is detrimental to human health, it is important to acknowledge the limitations of the current evidence.
 Higher consumption of UPFs has been associated with higher risk of death and certain diseases, but the evidence could, at least in part, be explained by bias.
 Negative controls can be useful tools for the detection of bias in the associations between UPF consumption and the risk of adverse health outcomes.
 Findings of a positive association between UPF consumption and accidental death (a cause of death that we would not expect to be affected by UPF consumption other than via bias) alert us to the fact that the associations between UPF consumption and risk of adverse health outcomes may be biased.

Original language	English
Type	Written evidence for House of Lords' Food, Diet and Obesity Inquiry
Publisher	House of Lords
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2024

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Ultra-processed foods, adiposity and risk of head and neck cancer and oesophageal adenocarcinoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study: a mediation analysis
Morales Berstein, F., Biessy, C., Viallon, V., Goncalves Soares, A. L., Casagrande, C., Hémon, B., Kliemann, N., Cairat, M., Blanco Lopez, J., Al Nahas, A., Chang, K., Vamos, E., Rauber, F., Bertazzi Levy, R., Barbosa Cunha, D., Jakszyn, P., Ferrari, P., Vineis, P., Masala, G. & Catalano, A. & 28 others, Sonestedt, E., Borné, Y., Katzke, V., Bajracharya, R., Agnoli, C., Guevara, M., Heath, A., Radoï, L., Mancini, F., Weiderpass, E., Huerta, J. M., Sánchez, M.-J., Tjønneland, A., Kyrø, C., Schulze, M., Skeie, G., Lukic, M., Braaten, T., Gunter, M., Millett, C., Agudo, A., Brennan, P., Borges, M. C., Richmond, R., Richardson, T. G., Davey Smith, G., Relton, C. L. & Huybrechts, I., 22 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Nutrition. 20 p.
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6 p. House of Lords. 2024, Written evidence for House of Lords' Food, Diet and Obesity Inquiry.

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FERNANDA MORALES BERSTEIN, CAROLINA BORGES AND DEBORAH LAWLOR, MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC) INTEGRATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT AT UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL - WRITTEN EVIDENCE: FDO0017

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Ultra-processed foods, adiposity and risk of head and neck cancer and oesophageal adenocarcinoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study: a mediation analysis

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