ArticlePloS one2014
Coffee consumption and risk of fracture in the Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM).
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- Association of Coffee and Tea Intake with Bone Mineral Density and Hip Fracture: A Meta-Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Pooled it
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- Caffeine consumption as a potential risk factor of osteoporosis development among night shift workers: epidemiological evidences and hypothesis.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2025Review
- Reply on "Coffee consumption and bone health: A risk assessment".Osteoporosis and sarcopenia · 2020Article
- Nonpharmacological interventions for osteoporosis treatment: Systematic review of clinical practice guidelines.Osteoporosis and sarcopenia · 2019Review
- Does coffee drinking have beneficial effects on bone health of Taiwanese adults? A longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Coffee and tea drinking in relation to risk of hip fracture in the Singapore Chinese Health Study.Bone · 2018Article
- Caffeine at a Moderate Dose Did Not Affect the Skeletal System of Rats with Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes.Nutrients · 2017Article
- Long-term a posteriori dietary patterns and risk of hip fractures in a cohort of women.European journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health and Fracture Healing.Journal of osteoporosis · 2017Review
- Subjective evaluation of the frequency of coffee intake and relationship to osteoporosis in Chinese men.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent research in a large cohort of women showed that coffee consumption is not associated with increased risk of fracture. Whether this is the case also among men is less clear.
methodsIn the Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM) study, 42,978 men aged 45-79 years old at baseline in 1997 answered a self-administered food frequency questionnaire covering coffee consumption and a medical and lifestyle questionnaire covering potential confounders. Our main outcomes first fracture at any site and first hip fracture were collected from the National Patient Registry in Sweden. The association between coffee consumption and fracture risk was investigated using Cox's proportional hazards regression.
resultsDuring a mean follow-up of 11.2 years, 5,066 men had a first fracture at any site and of these, 1,186 (23%) were hip fractures. There was no association between increasing coffee consumption (per 200 ml) and rate of any fracture (hazard ratio [HR] 1.00; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.99-1.02) or hip fracture (HR 1.02; 95% CI 0.99-1.06) after adjustment for potential confounders. For men consuming ≥ 4 cups of coffee/day compared to those consuming <1 cup of coffee/day, HR for any type of fracture was 0.91 (95% CI 0.80-1.02) and for hip fracture: 0.89 (95% CI 0.70-1.14).
conclusionsHigh coffee consumption was not associated with an increased risk of fractures in this large cohort of Swedish men.
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