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This blog gives additional details on one of multiple topics in PodMed, a weekly podcast found at Hopkinsmedicine.org/ podmed. It looks at the top medical stories of the week for people who want to become informed participants in their own health care.
PodMed is created by Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, president of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and dean of the Paul Foster School of Medicine.
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Coffee!
November 20th, 2015|Medical News Commentary|By Elizabeth Tracey
What exactly did they do in this study? Researchers crunched numbers from the Nurses Health Study, the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, and the second iteration of the Nurses Health Study, looking at consumption of coffee, including caffeinated and non-caffeinated varieties, as well as all cause and cause specific mortality. They found that coffee consumption of from one to five cups per day was inversely related to mortality, whether that beverage contained caffeine or not. Cause specific mortality also demonstrated an inverse relationship, including death from cardiovascular disease, neurological disease, or suicide. There was no association found between cancer risk and coffee consumption.
Other topics this week include measuring body temperature in Annals of Internal Medicine, and two from NEJM: an oral treatment for respiratory syncytial virus and germ line mutations and cancer in kids. Until next week, y'all live well.