American Heart Journal
Volume 158, Issue 4 , Pages 667-672 , October 2009

Coffee consumption and risk of heart failure in men: An analysis from the Cohort of Swedish Men

  • Hanna N. Ahmed, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Clinical Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
    • Drs Ahmed and Levitan contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Emily B. Levitan, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Emily B. Levitan, ScD, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 375 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, 02215.
    • Drs Ahmed and Levitan contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Alicja Wolk, DrMedSci

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Received 27 May 2009 ,Accepted 13 July 2009.

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PII: S0002-8703(09)00542-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.07.006

American Heart Journal
Volume 158, Issue 4 , Pages 667-672 , October 2009

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