Gastroenterology
Volume 128, Issue 1 , Pages 24-32 , January 2005

Coffee and caffeine consumption reduce the risk of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase activity in the United States

  • Constance E. Ruhl

      Affiliations

    • Social and Scientific Systems, Inc, Silver Spring
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Constance E. Ruhl, MD, PhD, Social and Scientific Systems, Inc, 8757 Georgia Avenue, 12th Floor, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. fax: (301) 628-3201.
    • ,
  • James E. Everhart

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland

Received 1 April 2004 ,Accepted 16 September 2004.

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 Supported by a contract from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NO1-DK-1-2478).

PII: S0016-5085(04)01744-5

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.09.075

Gastroenterology
Volume 128, Issue 1 , Pages 24-32 , January 2005

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