Coffee Consumption Is Associated With Higher Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations in Women With or Without Type 2 Diabetes
Response to Kotani et al.
- Rob M. van Dam, PHD12,
- Frank B. Hu, MD, PHD123 and
- Christos S. Mantzoros, MD4
- 1Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- 3Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- 4Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Corresponding author: Rob M. van Dam, PhD, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: rvandam{at}hsph.harvard.edu
Kotani et al. reported results on the association between coffee consumption and serum adiponectin concentrations in Japanese men and women (1). They concluded that their study does not confirm our recent observation that frequent consumption of coffee is associated with higher adiponectin concentrations in a population of U.S. women (2) and suggest that ethnic differences may have contributed to this difference in results. However, one could offer several …
