Coffee And Diabetes Risk

Drinking 1.5 cups or more of coffee daily seems to lower the risk of developingtype 2 diabetes according to newly published research from Greece. This isn’t the first study to link coffee consumption to a reduced risk of diabetes, and its findings don’t add up to proof that coffee really was responsible for the lower risk seen. But the researchers at Harokopio University in Athens reported that higher coffee consumption was associated with lower levels of an inflammatory marker called serum amyloid, an observation thatmight explain the link between coffee and diabetes. More than 1,400 men and women age 18 and older were selected for the study in 2001 and 2002. Of this group 816 were deemed“casual” coffee drinkers who consumed less than 1.5 cups per day while 385 participants were“habitual” coffee drinkers who consumed 1.5 cups or more daily. The remaining 239 participants didn’t drink coffee at all. When the study ended 10 years later, 191 men and women in the study group had developed diabetes; the risk among habitual coffee drinkers was 54 percent lower than that of the other groups in the study even after the researchers accounted for such factors as smoking, high blood pressure, family history of diabetes and intake of other caffeinated beverages.My take: A number of studies have linked habitual coffee consumption to lower rates oftype 2 diabetes. One from University of California, Los Angeles, published in 2011 shed new ligh...
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