36-fold higher estimate of deaths attributable to red meat intake in GBD 2019: is this reliable?

We wish to compliment the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) Collaborators for their important contributions to global health metrics over the past 30 years. Their standardised and comprehen-sive estimates of the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors have been used by researchers, govern-ment officials, and non-governmental organisations to make comparisons among populations, to track changes over time, and to monitor progress towards key policy targets, such as the Sustainable Development Goals.