Drinking coffee is linked to a reduced risk for diabetes, a new study reports, and caffeine apparently has little to do with the effect.

The researchers, led by Mark A. Pereira, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, studied the dietary habits of more than 28,000 postmenopausal women. They found that those who drank six or more cups of regular or decaffeinated coffee a day had a 33 percent reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes, compared with those who drank none. Those with intermediate levels of coffee intake tended to have intermediate diabetes risk. Over the period of the study, from 1986 to 1997, 1,418 women developed the illness.

Read: Diabetes Prevention In a Fresh, Hot Cuppa Joe?

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