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# Processed Meat Linked to Heart Failure
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/processed_meat_linked_to_heart_failure_0613140120/
- Published: 2014-06-13T14:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T11:24:02.000Z
- Description: Among 37,035 men followed nearly 12 years in the Cohort of Swedish Men, each 50-gram daily serving of processed meat was tied to an 8 percent higher risk of heart failure and a 38 percent higher chance of dying from it.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

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Processed meats can double your risk of dying of heart failure, according to a new study published in the American Heart Association's journal *Circulation: Heart Failure*.  
  
Researchers followed the diets of 37,035 men for almost 12 years as part of the Cohort of Swedish Men study.  
  
For each 50 gram serving of processed meat, about the size of a regular hot dog, heart failure risk increased by 8 percent, and the chances of dying from heart failure increased by 38 percent.  
  
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Kaluza J, Åkesson A, Wolk A. Processed and unprocessed red meat consumption and risk of heart failure: a prospective study of men.*Circ Heart Fail*. Published online June 12, 2014.