Coffee Consumption and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes
- Aramesh Saremi, MD,
- Marshall Tulloch-Reid, MBBS, MPHIL and
- William C. Knowler, MD, DRPH
- From the Diabetes and Arthritis Epidemiology Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona
- Address correspondence to Aramesh Saremi, MD, 1550 East Indian School Rd., Phoenix, Arizona 85014. E-mail: asaremi{at}mail.nih.gov.
There have been few reports of associations between coffee consumption and diabetes. In healthy subjects given an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), the 1-h glucose concentration was lower when the glucose load was given with coffee (1). There were no significant differences in the other time points in the test, nor in serum insulin concentration at any time point. In contrast, others have reported a deterioration of glucose tolerance after coffee ingestion (2,3). In healthy subjects a rise in blood glucose levels after caffeine intake was detected at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th hours in comparison to …
