Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or
decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink
coffee, according a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute
(NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP.
Neal Freedman, Ph.D., Division of Cancer
Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, lead the study, which examined the association
between coffee drinking and risk of death in 400,000 U.S. men and women ages 50
to 71.
"Coffee is one of the most widely consumed
beverages in America, but the association between coffee consumption and risk
of death has been unclear,” said Freedman. “We found coffee consumption to be
associated with lower risk of death overall, and of death from a number of
different causes."
