Correlation != Causation
according to the abstract the study suggests a link, not causation.
[edit] - depending on how you interpret the word "potentially". i read it as "a potential explanation for the phenomenon".
Much of what we take as certain once started with observed correlation. This trend of immediately and automatically discounting observed correlations will likely do more harm than good over time, as one would be hard-pressed to hypothesize and later prove (or at least fail to disprove, in the scientific sense) causation if one's habit were to always blurt "correlation != causation" in the face of new information.