Figure 4.
Estimated number of site-specific incident cancer cases attributable to high consumption of red meat (=500 g/week), any consumption of processed meat (>0 g/week), high intake of salt (=6 g/day), low intake of dietary fiber (<32 g/day) and low consumption of fruit and vegetables (<400 g/day) among men and women aged 35 to 84 years in Germany for the year 2018, assuming a 10-year latency period between exposure and cancer incidence.
*1 The PAF for the category “All above cancer types combined” was computed with respect to total cancer incidence (ICD-10 C00-C99 without C44).
*2 The PAF for the category “All dietary factors combined” was computed with the sequential PAF formula separately for each cancer type and each age group. The resulting age- and sex-specific attributable cancer cases were then summated to yield an overall estimate for the whole population and set against the total number of cancer cases (ICD-10 C00-C99 without C44; cf. eSupplement E and eTable 21).
ICD, International Classification of Diseases; PAF, population-attributable fraction