Even Major Coffee Drinking Not Seen as Mortality Risk

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:41

MADRID -- Drinking six cups of coffee or more a day was not associated with a greater risk of all-cause mortality, according to two large prospective cohort studies.

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