date:May 18, 2012
The study examined the association of coffee drinking with subsequent total and cause-specific mortality among 229,119 men and 173,141 women in the National Institutes of Health AARP Diet and Health Study between 1995 and 2008. The participants were between the ages of 50 to 71 at the time of the study and exhibited no signs of cancer, heart disease or stroke. Coffee consumption was assessed once at baseline.
Of the approximately 402,000 participants, about 42,000 said they drank no coffee an