Benefits of Coffee for Females

April 19, 2010

Hi folks:

Good news for coffee drinkers. And it looks like even drinking it just

occasionally provides the lion's share of the benefit:

J Nutr. 2010 Mar 24.

Coffee Consumption and Mortality Due to All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and

Cancer in Japanese Women.

Sugiyama K, Kuriyama S, Akhter M, Kakizaki M, Nakaya N, Ohmori-Matsuda K,

Shimazu T, Nagai M, Sugawara Y, Hozawa A, Fukao A, Tsuji I.

Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine,

Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai

980-8575, Japan.

Abstract

Coffee contains various compounds that have recently been reported to exert

beneficial health effects. However, the conclusion of its relation with

mortality has not yet been reached. In this study, we aimed to investigate the

associations between coffee consumption and all-cause and cause-specific

mortality in Japan.

We included 37,742 participants (18,287 men and 19,455 women) aged 40-64 y

without a history of cancer, myocardial infarction, or stroke at baseline in our

analysis, based on the Miyagi Cohort Study initiated in 1990. The outcomes were

mortality due to all causes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer. During

the 10.3 y of follow-up, 2454 participants died, including 426 due to CVD and

724 due to cancer.

In women, the multivariate hazard ratios (HR) (95% CI) for all-cause mortality

in participants who drank coffee never, occasionally, 1-2 cups (150-300 mL)/d,

and >/=3 cups/d were 1.00, 0.88 (0.73-1.06), 0.82 (0.66-1.02), and 0.75

(0.53-1.05), respectively (P-trend = 0.04). For CVD mortality in women, the

multivariate HR (95% CI) were 1.00, 0.56 (0.36-0.86), 0.48 (0.29-0.80), and 0.45

(0.20-1.03), respectively (P-trend = 0.006). Of the specific CVD diseases, there

was a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality due to

coronary heart disease (CHD) in women (P-trend = 0.02) but not in men.

Death due to cancer was not associated with coffee consumption in either men or

women, except for colorectal cancer in women. Our results suggest that coffee

may have favorable effects on morality due to all causes and to CVD, especially

CHD, in women.

PMID: 20335629

Based on this, perhaps one should drink tea daily and coffee occasionally?

Which happens to be what I do(!) Pure luck though.

Rodney.

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