Green Tea, Coffee, and Diabetes

  1. Hiroyasu Iso, MD
  1. From Osaka University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

    IN RESPONSE:

    We thank the correspondents for their interest in our study. In response to Dr. Chen's queries, there was no difference in mean BMI between respondents and nonrespondents in each category of green tea and coffee consumption, except for the category of at least 6 cups of green tea per day in men (22.6 kg/m2 vs. 22.9 kg/m2; P = 0.02) and the category of 1 to 6 cups of coffee per week in men (22.6 kg/m2 vs. 23.0 kg/m2; P = 0.008) and women (22.8 kg/m2 vs. 23.2 kg/m2 …

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