Coffee and death

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Hi All,

Rural Japanese sounds almost Okinawa-CRON-like.

I had difficulty following “No other statistically significant associations

were identified between consumption of the two beverages and all-cause

mortality” and no PDF access. Is it coffee much better than green tea?

For your information:

Apoplexy = Hemorrhage into the brain. A stroke. It is usually associated

with loss of consciousness and paralysis of various parts of the body.

Coffee prevents strokes associated with hypertension? This seemed to me to

come out of left field.

“The effects of habitual coffee consumption and its related factors on

health …. need to be studied in greater detail”?: Yes.

Cheers, Al.

J Epidemiol 2002 May;12(3):191-8

Relationship between coffee and green tea consumption and all-cause

mortality in a cohort of a rural Japanese population.

Iwai N, Ohshiro H, Kurozawa Y, Hosoda T, Morita H, Funakawa K, Okamoto M,

Nose T.

“We conducted a cohort study to investigate the effects of coffee and green

tea consumption on all-cause mortality in a rural Japanese population. Data

were obtained from 2,855 men and women aged 40-79 years in 1989, and during

the subsequent 9.9 years of follow-up. Using the regression model to

adjust for potential confounding factors, we calculated the multivariate

hazard ratios of death from all causes …. The multivariate hazard ratio of

mortality for men who consumed two or more cups of coffee per day, compared

with those who consumed less than half a cup per day, was 0.43 (95%

confidence interval, 0.30-0.63), and the ratio for those who consumed half

to one cup of coffee per day was 0.70 (95% confidence interval, 0.52-0.94).

Exclusion of subjects with less than 5 years of follow-up did not

substantially change the findings. No other statistically significant

associations were identified between consumption of the two beverages and

all-cause mortality. For men, multivariate hazard ratios of death from

apoplexy showed a significant inverse association with increasing coffee

consumption. The effects of habitual coffee consumption and its related

factors on health in Japan need to be studied in greater detail.”

PMID: 12164320 [PubMed - in process]

Alan Pater, Ph.D.; Faculty of Medicine; Memorial University; St. 's, NF

A1B 3V6 Canada; Tel. No.: (709) 777-6488; Fax No.: (709) 777-7010; email:

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