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Study ties coffee to reduced diabetes risk

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March 29, 2023

A new study confirms prior studies indicating a link between coffee consumption and a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to a medicalnewstoday.com report.

While the latest study establishes a relationship, the mechanism is not clear.

The benefit was most pronounced in consumers of ground coffee — espresso or filtered — and non-smokers

The study analyzed data from two data sets: the Netherlands' Rotterdam Study and the United Kingdom's U.K. Biobank.

The Biobank study included 502,536 subjects from the U.K. who participated from April 2006 to December 2010, and were 37 to 73-years-old. Follow up data from these subjects became available in 2017.

The Rotterdam Study began in 1990 and is ongoing, involving 14,929 subjects, with follow-up data released in 2015.

The researchers found changes in inflammation-related biomarkers related to Type 2 diabetes.