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Heart & Blood

How to prevent or reverse coronary heart disease (I)?

The first part of a review of dietary factors in coronary heart disease: most coffee studies found no significant association, and Norwegian data tied unfiltered boiled coffee to more deaths, while each extra 10 g of daily fiber tracked with 14% fewer coronary events.

Food

Here is why drinking coffee cuts type 2 diabetes mellitus risk

Testing caffeine, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid and dihydrocaffeic acid separately, researchers found each inhibited formation of the toxic hIAPP amyloids thought to raise type 2 diabetes risk. Caffeic acid proved most potent and caffeine least.

Jan 12, 2012

Food

Drinking coffee may cut endometrial cancer risk

Je and Giovannucci pooled 16 studies covering 6,628 endometrial cancer cases and found the heaviest coffee drinkers were up to 29 percent less likely to develop the disease. Each additional cup a day corresponded to an 8 percent lower risk. The authors call for more large studies.

Jan 8, 2012

Food

Coffee may protect against endometrial cancer (updated)

Among 67,470 Nurses' Health Study participants followed 26 years, drinking four or more cups of coffee a day was tied to 25% lower endometrial cancer risk. Decaffeinated coffee showed a similar link. The study is observational and cannot prove cause.

Nov 22, 2011

Food

Drinking coffee helps hepatitis C treatment

Among 885 hepatitis C patients treated with peginterferon and ribavirin, those drinking three or more cups of coffee a day had larger drops in viral load and were 80 percent more likely to sustain a virologic response than non-drinkers.

Nov 18, 2011

Food

Coffee drinking linked to lower risk of skin cancer

Across 113,000 people followed more than 20 years, women drinking over three cups of coffee a day were 20% less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma and men 9% less. No link appeared for melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma, and the study cannot show cause.

Oct 25, 2011

Food

Drinking coffee may cut stroke risk slightly

Susanna Larsson pooled 11 studies covering 478,700 people and about 10,000 strokes, finding those drinking two to six cups of coffee a day were roughly 13% less likely to have a stroke. At eight cups the reduction fell to 7%, and no trial shows cause.

Sep 17, 2011

Cancer

Drinking coffee may reduce risk of breast cancer

Postmenopausal women drinking five or more cups of coffee a day were 57 percent less likely to have ER-negative breast cancer than those drinking one or fewer, in a Swedish analysis of 2,818 cases and 3,111 controls. The study was not a trial and cannot show cause.

Jul 19, 2011

Food

Coffee, Tea, Vitamin D Help Fight MRSA Superbug

A non-randomized study in Annals of Family Medicine found people who drank hot tea or coffee had nearly 50 percent lower odds of carrying MRSA in the nose, though why is unknown. A separate report tied lower vitamin D in inpatients to higher costs and service use.

Jul 15, 2011

Food

Tea and coffee help fight superbug

Drawing on 2003-2004 NHANES data, Eric Matheson's team found adults who drank hot tea were 47% less likely to carry MRSA in the nose than non-drinkers, with a similar reduction among coffee drinkers. About 1.4% of the population carries MRSA in the nose.

Jul 15, 2011

Food

Drinking coffee cuts risk of fatty liver disease - study suggests

In a five-year Japanese study comparing men with ultrasonically diagnosed fatty liver against matched controls, the men who had the condition drank significantly more coffee than those who did not.

Jul 13, 2011

Food

Can bipolar disorder patients drink coffee?

An Italian study of 562 patients with mood disorders linked the bipolar spectrum to illicit drugs and to "social drugs" such as coffee and tobacco. An earlier German study of 352 bipolar patients found coffee drinkers 142% more likely to have suicidal acts, and smokers 79%.

Jul 1, 2011

Food

Green tea may cut thyroid cancer risk in postmenopausal women

Among 100,507 Japanese adults followed 14.2 years, postmenopausal women drinking five or more cups of green tea a day were 53 percent less likely to develop thyroid cancer. Premenopausal women at that intake showed 66 percent higher risk, and no link appeared overall.

May 21, 2011

Vitamins

Vitamin D may help cut risk of death from prostate cancer

Among 1,822 men with prostate cancer, those whose pre-diagnosis 25(OH)D was in the lowest quartile were 59 percent more likely to die of the disease and 22 percent more likely to die of any cause than men with the highest levels. The active form 1,25(OH)2D showed no link.

May 19, 2011

Food

Meats cooked at high temperature boost prostate cancer risk

Comparing 726 prostate cancer patients with 527 men without it, researchers linked hamburgers, processed meat, grilled red meat and well-done red meat to 79, 57, 63 and 52 percent higher risk of advanced, but not localized, disease. White meat showed no association.

May 18, 2011

Food

Coffee may reduce the risk of deadly prostate cancer

Harvard's Kathryn Wilson and colleagues followed 47,911 men for 22 years and found those drinking six or more cups of coffee a day had a 20 percent lower risk of prostate cancer overall and a 60 percent lower risk of advanced disease. Regular and decaffeinated coffee both counted.

May 18, 2011

Food

Can coffee fight breast cancer ?

Swedish researchers compared nearly 6,000 postmenopausal women and found those drinking five or more cups of coffee a day had a 57 percent lower risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer than women who drank less than a cup daily.

May 15, 2011

Food

Drinking this beverage may reduce cancer risk

A meta-analysis of 59 studies found regular coffee drinkers were 13 percent less likely to develop cancer, with heavy drinkers at 18 percent lower risk and each additional daily cup tied to a 3 percent reduction.

May 11, 2011

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