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by yawpitch 42 days ago
Continuing the same paragraph: “Applying a 10-year lag period […] and comparing versus prostate cancer screening […] but not breast cancer screening […] attenuated the risk increase.“

The “attenuated” in this case means “weakened the case for”.

Or, in other words, we found a correlation without finding any causation.