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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.
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.
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...
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
Fox!
So, it actually DOES make you do blind!
All ED meds do this. Not new information.
I seem to recall hearing that viagra will turn your vision blue. And then they released that series of ads for it with a blue tint, which struck me as an interesting choice.
tadalafil
I remember Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk getting one of the characters in his 2008 novel Snuff go blind while waiting for his turn on the set of a gang bang production from eating viagra like smarties. Fun book, still waiting for the movie 🍿
A boner and the women get hotter?
Sounds like a win win.
~~If this this drug had a female equivalent it wouldn’t be sold OTC because it’s dangerous to take it when you have high blood pressure. This study just piles up more evidence for it. I guess this is a rare instance where sexism inherent to medicine and pharmacology bites men in the butt.~~
Guess what, ED drugs (really BP drugs because they were developed as vasidilators for blood pressure management) aren't legally available without a prescription.
I stand corrected, tadalafil is not OTC in many countries, only sildenafil is. Tadalafil is OTC where I live since 2022 and I assumed it’s the same elsewhere.
You can just buy them online. Legality is irrelevant to the topic.
aren’t legally available without a prescription.
sure, like oxycontin.
No ED medication is over the counter in Canada.
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