Open AccessCaffeine consumption and benign breast disease: a case-control comparison.
Author(s) -
Jenna Marshall,
Saxon Graham,
Mya Swanson
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.72.6.610
Subject(s) - breast cancer , medicine , breast disease , disease , case control study , caffeine , ingestion , consumption (sociology) , physiology , gynecology , cancer , social science , sociology
In this case-control comparison of 323 women with benign breast disease and 1,458 controls, no differences were noted in the coffee and tea consumption patterns of the cases and controls. These findings do not support the recent suggestion of Minton, et al, that methylxanthine ingestion is causally related to benign breast disease or breast cancer.