Dementia warning: Five types of meat may cause dementia that gets worse ‘unusually fast’

Speaking of their findings, the authors noted: “Using control self-responses, consumption of hot dogs, sausage, pepperoni, kielbasa, ‘other’ canned meat, poultry liver, any stomach/intestine, beef stomach/intestine, any organ tissue, and beef organ tissue was individually associated with increased Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk.”

Elsewhere in the paper, the scientists added that a “greater consumption of hot dogs, bologna, salami, sausage pepperoni and kielbasa, was associated with a significantly higher risk.”

What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

There are several types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease recognised medically, but the disease can generally be broken down into three forms.