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Article: QUESTIONING CAFFEINE'S IMPACT ON OLDER WOMEN
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- The Washington Post
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- October 26, 1993
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One of the great insults of aging is the advice from family
members and doctors to curtail or eliminate a lifelong coffee or tea
habit because of concerns about its effect on heart conditions and
cancer. Two new studies are suggesting that caffeine may not play a
troublesome role for women.
One study published last summer in the American Journal of
Epidemiology examined the effect of caffeine (in tea and cola drinks
as well as coffee) on blood cholesterol levels. According to
University of Pittsburgh epidemiologist Jane A. Cauley, one of the
study's authors, about 1,000 women, ages 65 to 90, were followed from
October 1986 to October 1988. The study found no "significant
association of ...