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| Apr 21, 2009 2:21 pm |
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Here's some more good news about my favorite beverages... |
Ellen Schultz
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Tea, Coffee Drinking Seen to Reduce Endometrial Cancer Risk
Thursday, 16 April 2009
A study published in this month's edition of the International Journal of Cancer indicates that coffee and tea may be important in reducing endometrial cancer risk.
The link between diet and endometrial cancer had been studied, but not specifically the link between coffee and tea drinking and endometrial cancer, noted a team of researchers led by Susan E. McCann in the Department of Cancer Prevention and Control at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.
Adding to that the wide consumption of coffee and tea, as well as the antioxidant, anti-hormonal and anti-inflammatory properties the drinks contain, the team set out to study the "associations between endometrial cancer risk and usual consumption of coffee, decaffeinated coffee and black tea," according to the abstract.
The researchers combed through data collected through surveys at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute from 1982 and 1998, a period when all patients seen there were offered a comprehensive epidemiological questionnaire. Among other things, the questionnaire asked them about their food and beverage consumption.
McCann's team identified 541 women with incident, primary endometrial cancer and a matching set of 541 women with an intact uterus and no cancer who had all completed the survey. Among them 513 and 512, respectively, had complete data for coffee and tea consumption.
To help analyze the data, the researchers divided the beverage consumption into a range of cups per day, from one-half to more than four. It also took into account odds ratios and confidence intervals for other factors, such as age, body mass and menopausal status.
The results suggested that "women who consumed more than two cups per day of tea had a 44 percent reduction in endometrial cancer risk," and that "women who consumed more than four cups of any combination of coffee and tea per day had a 53-percent reduction in endometrial cancer risk," the report stated. Women who drank two cups of regular coffee per day had a 28 percent reduction in endometrial cancer, while decaffeinated coffee had no observable effect.
The report noted that further work was necessary to understand the association between tea and coffee consumption and endometrial cancer.
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Another reason to drink more tea. Yea!!
Warm regards,
Ellen Schultz
Tea Women Network founder
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