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01-11-2010 | Original paper

Tea and coffee intake in relation to risk of breast cancer in the Black Women’s Health Study

Authors: Deborah A. Boggs, Julie R. Palmer, Meir J. Stampfer, Donna Spiegelman, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Lynn Rosenberg

Published in: Cancer Causes & Control | Issue 11/2010

Abstract

Objective

Prospective studies of tea and coffee intake and breast cancer risk have yielded inconsistent results. None of these studies has reported separately on African-American women. We prospectively examined the relation of tea and coffee consumption to risk of breast cancer among 52,062 women aged 21–69 at enrollment in 1995 in the Black Women’s Health Study.

Methods

Dietary intake was assessed in 1995 and 2001 using a validated food frequency questionnaire. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), adjusted for breast cancer risk factors.

Results

During 12 years of follow-up through 2007, there were 1,268 incident cases of breast cancer. Intakes of tea, coffee, and caffeine were not significantly associated with the risk of breast cancer overall. The IRRs for consumption of ≥4 cups/day compared with none were 1.13 (95% CI 0.78–1.63) for tea and 1.03 (95% CI 0.77–1.39) for caffeinated coffee, and the IRR for the top quintile relative to the bottom quintile of caffeine intake was 1.04 (95% CI 0.87–1.24). Consumption of tea, coffee, and caffeine was not significantly associated with breast cancer risk according to menopausal status or hormone receptor status.

Conclusion

Our findings suggest that intakes of tea, coffee, and caffeine are not associated with the risk of breast cancer among African-American women.

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Title: Tea and coffee intake in relation to risk of breast cancer in the Black Women’s Health Study
Authors: Deborah A. Boggs
Julie R. Palmer
Meir J. Stampfer
Donna Spiegelman
Lucile L. Adams-Campbell
Lynn Rosenberg
Publication date: 01-11-2010
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cancer Causes & Control / Issue 11/2010
Print ISSN: 0957-5243
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-010-9622-6

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