summary - Pan-European EPIC cohort, 409,885 adults across 9 countries, mean 12.6-year follow-up, 7,198 incident MI/fatal-IHD cases. Examined meat, fish, dairy, and eggs together: red/processed meat raised IHD risk (HR 1.19 per 100g/day), while yogurt, cheese, and eggs were each modestly inversely associated with risk (eggs: HR 0.93 per 20g/day increment) - though the egg and yogurt associations became nonsignificant after excluding the first 4 years of follow-up (a reverse-causation check).
relevance_note - The clearest EPIC-family hard-endpoint primary; a modestly protective signal that weakens under reverse-causation sensitivity analysis, a useful calibration point.