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Study finds coffee drinkers have lower risk of death – 1
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Researchers have found an association between coffee drinking and a lower risk of death for older adults. NIH researcher Dr. Neal Freedman says coffee drinkers in the study were less likely to die from a number of different causes.
Freedman: We found that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, respiratory disease and infections, but not for cancer.
Narrator: He says for cancer there was no association for women but for men there was a small increased risk of cancer with higher amounts of coffee consumed. For more information on this study, which appears in the New England Journal of Medicine, visit www.cancer.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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