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Drinking alcohol can ruin your liver. But research into cirrhosis of the liver finds that there’s one other drink that may be able to save you from a death linked to cirrhosis of the liver.
Research at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and the National University of Singapore shows that coffee reduces your risk of death from liver cirrhosis by 66 percent.
Liver cirrhosis is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S.
“Prior evidence suggests that coffee may reduce liver damage in patients with chronic liver disease,” says lead researcher, Dr. Woon-Puay Koh with Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and the National University of Singapore.
The 15-year study looked at the health of more than 60,000 people in Singapore between the ages of 45 and 74.
“Our study is the first to demonstrate a difference between the effects of coffee on non-viral and viral hepatitis related cirrhosis mortality,” says Koh. “This finding resolves the seemingly conflicting results on the effect of coffee in Western and Asian-based studies of death from liver cirrhosis. Our finding suggests that while the benefit of coffee may be less apparent in the Asian population where chronic viral hepatitis B predominates currently, this is expected to change as the incidence of non-viral hepatitis related cirrhosis is expected to increase in these regions, accompanying the increasing affluence and westernizing lifestyles amongst their younger populations.”
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