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by jodosha 532 days ago
Not a native English speaker but, isn’t the word “attributable” in the title at least misleading?

Shouldn’t it be “linked” instead?

The paper indicates correlation, not causality.

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Based on the abstract it's not a study showing that "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease [are] attributable to sugar beverages", it's a paper quantifying the "[Amount of] Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease [that are] attributable to sugar beverages [in various countries]". The link and causation is already well established. This is trying to determine how much harm it's doing in different parts of the world.