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Albert B. Lowenfels, MD
New York Medical College Valhalla

JAMA. 1982;247(7):979-980.

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To the Editor.—

Feinstein et al (1981;246:957) question the recently reported association between coffee drinking and pancreatic cancer.¹ In particular, they suggest that the controls included persons with gastrointestinal disease for which coffee drinking may have been previously reduced or eliminated, thus leading to a false-positive association between pancreatic cancer and coffee drinking.

There is another source of data about coffee-drinking habits in our country.² For the past 30 years the International Coffee Association has conducted an annual survey of some 7,500 persons older than 10 years to ascertain their coffee-drinking habits. For 1977, the midpoint of study by MacMahon et al, the age-adjusted estimate of the percentage of coffee drinkers in our population between the ages of 45 and 79 years (the most prevalent age groups for pancreatic cancer) was 82%. This is actually lower than the percentage of coffee drinkers in the control subjects reported . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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