Association of Coffee Consumption With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in 3 Large Prospective Cohorts

Background— The association between consumption of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee and risk of mortality remains inconclusive. Methods and Results— We examined the associations of consumption of total, caffeinated, and decaffeinated coffee with risk of subsequent total and cause-specific mortality among 74 890 women in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), 93 054 women in the Nurses’ Health Study II, and 40 557 men in the Health Professionals...