Can Coffee Prevent Chronic Liver Disease?
Posted: 2021-07-09
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Recent headlines (1,2) attest that drinking coffee prevents chronic liver disease, based on a recently published study (3). The PEN Team set out to investigate whether the evidence supports these cause-and-effect statements.
What’s happening?
The study, published in the Journal of BMC Public Health, looked at 384,818 coffee drinkers and 109,767 non-coffee drinkers against estimated hazard ratios (HR) of incident chronic liver disease (CLD), incident CLD or steatosis, incident...