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Coffee drinkers less likely to get liver cancer: Tohoku researchers
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=325415
Friday, January 21, 2005 at 09:04 JST
TOKYO — People who drink more than a cup of coffee a day are less likely to develop liver cancer than those who do not, according to a team of researchers at Tohoku University.
The team, led by Ichiro Tsuji, professor of public health at the state-run university in Sendai, northeastern Japan, compiled the data based on a study of about 61,000 adults.
Tsuji has yet to pinpoint the substance in coffee which appears to curb development of cancer. But he says coffee helps lower the risk of cirrhosis, and that chlorogenic acid — present in coffee beans — has proven in an animal study to reduce the risks of liver cancer.
In the survey, the team studied 61,000 people aged 40 or over for seven to nine years between 1984 and 1997 and found that 117 of those studied developed liver cancer during the survey period.
The team analyzed data based on the subjects' age, sex, and other factors, and concluded that the chances of developing liver cancer were 0.58 for those who drink more than a cup of coffee per day and 0.71 for those who drink less than a cup of coffee a day, compared with the base figure of 1 for noncoffee drinkers.
The tendency to develop liver cancer was particularly prevalent among those who had had some type of liver ailment other than cancer in the past, who are 60 or older, and who had smoked in the past, according to the findings.
"The tendency not to develop liver cancer among coffee drinkers was consistent even if we analyzed their age, sex, and drinking habits," Tsuji said. "But putting too much sugar into coffee is not good for you."
Tsuji plans to present his team's findings Saturday at a meeting of the Japan Epidemiological Association in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture. (Kyodo News)
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