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Coffee and the liver: a potential treatment for liver disease?

Abstract
Liver disease is the fifth commonest cause of death in the UK. Observational and case-controlled studies have suggested that coffee is beneficial in liver disease, but this evidence has yet to be evaluated or placed into the context of the natural history of liver disease. The aim of this study was to review the current evidence for the role of coffee in liver disease. Several studies consistently show that coffee drinkers have a reduced risk of abnormal liver function tests, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. There is a clear dose response to this benefit. As the effect of this widely available food substance seems substantial further data, ideally from an interventional study of coffee in patients with liver disease, is urgently required particularly because of the potential to reduce fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma risk. This would be the first intervention of its kind to have proven benefit irrespective of etiology of liver disease.
AuthorsGail Susan Masterton, Peter C Hayes
JournalEuropean journal of gastroenterology & hepatology (Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol) Vol. 22 Issue 11 Pg. 1277-83 (Nov 2010) ISSN: 1473-5687 [Electronic] England
PMID20802342 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
Chemical References
  • Anticarcinogenic Agents
  • Coffee
  • Protective Agents
Topics
  • Animals
  • Anticarcinogenic Agents (pharmacology)
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular (prevention & control)
  • Coffee (adverse effects)
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Humans
  • Liver (drug effects, pathology)
  • Liver Cirrhosis (prevention & control)
  • Liver Diseases (diagnosis, etiology, prevention & control)
  • Liver Function Tests
  • Liver Neoplasms (prevention & control)
  • Protective Agents (adverse effects, pharmacology)
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors

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