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Drinking coffee cuts liver
cancer risk
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Are you regular coffee drinker? . Here is a happy news for you. . Drinking three
cups of coffee daily can reduce the risk of developing liver cancer by more than
50 per cent, a new study has claimed.
Coffee consumption also reduces risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most
common type of liver cancer, by about 40 per cent, according to an up-to-date
meta-analysis published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, a journal
of the American Gastroenterological Association.
Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, and the third most
common cause of cancer death. HCC is the main type of liver cancer, accounting
for more than 90 per cent of cases worldwide.
"Our research confirms past claims that coffee is good for your health, and
particularly the liver," said study author Carlo La Vecchia.
"The favourable effect of coffee on liver cancer might be mediated by coffee's
proven prevention of diabetes, a known risk factor for the disease, or for its
beneficial effects on cirrhosis and liver enzymes," said Vecchia from the
department of epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, and
department of clinical sciences and community health, Universita degli Studi di
Milan, Italy.
Researchers performed a meta-analysis of articles published from 1996 through
September 2012, ultimately studying 16 high-quality studies and a total of 3,153
cases.
Despite the consistency of results across studies, time periods and populations,
it is difficult to establish whether the association between coffee drinking and
HCC is causal, or if this relationship may be partially attributable to the fact
that patients with liver and digestive diseases often voluntarily reduce their
coffee intake, researchers said.
( Courtesy: PTI,
Indian Express )
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