Association of Coffee Consumption With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in 3 Large Prospective Cohorts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between consumption of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee and risk of mortality remains inconclusive.

Methods and results

We examined the associations of consumption of total, caffeinated, and decaffeinated coffee with risk of subsequent total and cause-specific mortality among 74,890 women in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), 93,054 women in the Nurses' Health Study II, and 40,557 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Coffee consumption was assessed at baseline using a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire. During 4,690,072 person-years of follow-up, 19,524 women and 12,432 men died. Consumption of total, caffeinated, and decaffeinated coffee were nonlinearly associated with mortality. Compared with nondrinkers, coffee consumpti

SUBMITTER: Ding M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4679527 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature