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Excess Coffee Consumption a Culprit for Poor Health

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Association between habitual coffee consumption and multiple disease outcomes: A Mendelian randomisation phenome-wide association study in the UK Biobank
Konstance Nicolopoulos, Anwar Mulugeta, Ang Zhou,Elina Hyppönen

Published:March 13, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2020.03.009

Cappuccino, latte or short black, coffee is one of the most commonly consumed drinks in the world. But whether it’s good or bad for your health can be clarified by genetics, as a world-first study from the University of South Australia’s Australian Centre for Precision Health shows that excess coffee consumption can cause poor health.

Using data from over 300,000 participants in the UK Biobank, researchers examined connections between genetically instrumented habitual coffee consumption and a full ra...

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