Coffee Consumption Is Associated With Lower Liver Stiffness: A Nationally Representative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Coffee is associated with a reduced risk of liver disease. This association is limited by important sources of confounding such as recall bias, healthy user bias, and indirect measures of liver outcomes or health. We aimed to examine the impact of coffee consumption with liver fibrosis and steatosis in a nationally representative sample.

Methods

We evaluated 4510 subjects 20 years and older from the 2017 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey study who underwent both transient elastography and two 24-hour dietary recall examinations. We tested the associations between liver stiffness measurements (LSM) of 9.5 kpa or greater or controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) and coffee consumption. We used decaffeinated coffee and tea consumption as

SUBMITTER: Niezen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8983790 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature