During 5,148,760 person-years of follow-up between 1995 and 2008, a total of 33,731 men and 18,784 women died. In age-adjusted models, the risk of death was increased among coffee drinkers. However, coffee drinkers were also more likely to smoke, and, after adjustment for tobacco-smoking status and other potential confounders, there was a significant inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality. Adjusted hazard ratios for death among men who drank coffee as compared with those who did not were as follows: 0.99 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.95 to 1.04) for drinking less than 1 cup per day, 0.94 (95% CI, 0.90 to 0.99) for 1 cup, 0.90 (95% CI, 0.86 to 0.93) for 2 or 3 cups, 0.88 (95% CI, 0.84 to 0.93) for 4 or 5 cups, and 0.90 (95% CI, 0.85 to 0.96) for 6 or more cups of coffee per day (P<0.001 for trend); the respective hazard ratios among women were 1.01 (95% CI, 0.96 to 1.07), 0.95 (95% CI, 0.90 to 1.01), 0.87 (95% CI, 0.83 to 0.92), 0.84 (95% CI, 0.79 to 0.90), and 0.85 (95% CI, 0.78 to 0.93) (P<0.001 for trend). Inverse associations were observed for deaths due to heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, but not for deaths due to cancer. Results were similar in subgroups, including persons who had never smoked and persons who reported very good to excellent health at baseline. Full Article
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Dr. Fly, I wanted to respectfully mention that the study you linked does _not_ indicate that coffee drinking is harmful.
The study has the conclusion that there were reduced rates of mortality in coffee drinkers compared to non-coffee drinkers.
Though the results paragraph you display first mentions there was an increased risk of death with coffee drinkers, the authors state further that they adjusted their findings for risk factors such as smoking and other “cofounders”.
After those adjustments they found inverse associations between coffee drinking and many causes of death, with the exception of cancer.
Figure I mentioned this before people start taking large short positions in Starbucks after reading this news item.
I know.
Here’s an older article that shows another benefit of coffee drinking: an inverse association between coffee drinking and advanced prostate cancer:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20091208/Data-shows-strong-inverse-association-between-coffee-consumption-and-advanced-prostate-cancer.aspx
luv java … I’d die without it