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Associations of Coffee Drinking with Systemic Immune and Inflammatory Markers

Overview of attention for article published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, July 2015
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Title
Associations of Coffee Drinking with Systemic Immune and Inflammatory Markers
Published in
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, July 2015
DOI 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0038-t
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Authors

Erikka Loftfield, Meredith S. Shiels, Barry I. Graubard, Hormuzd A. Katki, Anil K. Chaturvedi, Britton Trabert, Ligia A. Pinto, Troy J. Kemp, Fatma M. Shebl, Susan T. Mayne, Nicolas Wentzensen, Mark P. Purdue, Allan Hildesheim, Rashmi Sinha, Neal D. Freedman

Abstract

Coffee drinking has been inversely associated with mortality as well as cancers of the endometrium, colon, skin, prostate, and liver. Improved insulin sensitivity and reduced inflammation are among the hypothesized mechanisms by which coffee drinking may affect cancer risk; however, associations between coffee drinking and systemic levels of immune and inflammatory markers have not been well characterized. We used Luminex bead-based assays to measure serum levels of 77 immune and inflammatory markers in 1,728 older non-Hispanic Whites. Usual coffee intake was self-reported using a food frequency questionnaire. We used weighted multivariable logistic regression models to examine associations between coffee and dichotomized marker levels. We conducted statistical trend tests by modeling the median value of each coffee category and applied a 20% false discovery rate criterion to P-values. Ten of the 77 markers were nominally associated (P-value for trend<0.05) with coffee drinking. Five markers withstood correction for multiple comparisons and included aspects of the host response namely chemotaxis of monocytes/macrophages (IFNγ, CX3CL1/fractalkine, CCL4/MIP-1β), pro-inflammatory cytokines (sTNFRII) and regulators of cell growth (FGF-2). Heavy coffee drinkers had lower circulating levels of IFNγ (OR=0.35; 95% CI 0.16-0.75), CX3CL1/fractalkine (OR=0.25; 95% CI 0.10-0.64), CCL4/MIP-1β (OR=0.48; 95% CI 0.24-0.99), FGF-2 (OR=0.62; 95% CI 0.28-1.38), and sTNFRII (OR=0.34; 95% CI 0.15-0.79) than non-coffee drinkers. Lower circulating levels of inflammatory markers among coffee drinkers may partially mediate previously observed associations of coffee with cancer and other chronic diseases. Validation studies, ideally controlled feeding trials, are needed to confirm these associations.

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Country Count As %
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 139 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 12%
Student > Bachelor 16 11%
Researcher 9 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 45 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 4%
Neuroscience 5 4%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 53 38%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 301. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 September 2024.
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