Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Perk Up - Coffee May Give a Break on Type 2 Diabetes -

Perk Up - Coffee May Give a Break on Type 2 Diabetes - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "BOSTON, July 5 - Take a break. Coffee consumption may lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a meta-analysis published today.

So brewed up a Dutch-American team of researchers who reviewed 15 epidemiological studies, some cohort and others cross-sectional. The analysis was published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The cohort studies showed that the more coffee participants drank, the lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, reported Rob van Dam, Ph.D., and Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D., both of the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. van Dam is also affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in The Netherlands."

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