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http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/89/3/969.full.pdf

It's not measuring red meat itself, but iron intake mostly from red meat. They used the RR of 1.03 for heme iron and coronary heart disease, but not the RR of 1.42 found for heme iron and fatal coronary heart disease or non-fatal heart attack, which was an association that even remained after they adjusted for dietary cholesterol and dietary fat intakes. Even the iron in red meat is associated with heart attacks. " Heme iron intake, largely from red meat, however, was positively associated with risk of myocardial infarction."

The last study of the 4 was about the Mediterranean diet (which is low in meat and has been associated witth good healtth) and found a strong association for red meat and CHD

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12242583

Do you agree with the authors of the meta-analysis that these 4 studies are evidence that red meat has a neutral impact on heart health, even ignoring other forms of study that this analysis doesn't reference?