Caffeine may not be good for to-be-moms but a new study has found that drinking three cups of coffee daily can help prevent ovarian cancer in women.
LONDON: Caffeine may not be good for to-be-moms as it increases the risk of miscarriage. But a new study has found that drinking three cups of coffee daily can help prevent ovarian cancer in women.
A team of international researchers has carried out the study and found that women who take caffeine equivalent to three cups of coffee everyday are less likely to develop ovarian cancer later in life.
"We observed a significant inverse trend of ovarian cancer risk with caffeine intake. The reasons why caffeine protects against ovarian cancer is not clear and further studies will be carried out," lead researcher Shelley Tworoger of Harvard Medical School wrote in the 'Cancer' journal.
The team came to the conclusion after analysing the effects of coffee intake on a group of nurses. The researcherscompared the diets of 80,000 of these women with the incidence of ovarian cancer as part of the study between 1976 and 2004.
According to the researchers, 737 of them developed ovarian cancer during the study period.
Those who had at least three cups of coffee a day were found to be 20 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who drank none. Moreover, those who did not opt forhormone replacement therapy, the risk was 43 per cent less.
However, the benefits and risks of drinking coffee continue to be the subject of much debate.
"The jury is still out as to whether or not caffeine affects the risk of ovarian cancer because evidence from previous studies looking at this link has been inconsistent," the 'Daily Mail' quoted Josephine Querido of Cancer Research UK as saying.
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