Freedman, MD, of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes
of Health, Department
of Health and Human Services,
in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues.
To study this relationship, Freedman analyzed patient questionnaire data about food frequency, including coffee and tea consumption, from the 3.5-year HALT-C randomized trial of 1050 hepatitis C patients at Ishak stage 3 or higher who were unresponsive to standard drug therapies.