Effect of coffee consumption on bone metabolism.
The effects of coffee on bone metabolism are still controversial, although several studies have suggested that caffeine and/or heavy coffee consumption is associated with a significant increase in risk of fracture, osteoporosis, and periodontal disease. Therefore, we sought to clarify the relationship between coffee consumption and bone metabolism using male Wistar rats. Forty-eight male Wistar rats were assigned to three treatment groups including a control-diet group (control, n = 16, coffee-free diet), a 0.62% coffee-diet group (low caffeine, n = 16, diet supplemented with 6.2 g/kg of the control diet), and a 1.36% coffee-diet group (high caffeine, n = 16, diet supplemented with 13.6 g/kg of the control diet), and animals were maintained on an experimental diet for 140 days. Although caffeine in serum was not detected in rats fed the control diet, low-intake coffee for 140 days led to an increase in caffeine concentration to 0.53 +/- 0.11 microg/mL and high-intake coffee led to an increase of 1.77 +/- 0.22 microg/mL. No significant differences in body weight change, serum and urinary biochemical markers of bone metabolism, and bone histomorphometry were found between the coffee-diet groups and the control-diet group, except that urinary phosphorus excretion after 140 days of both coffee diets was significantly increased compared with controls (p < 0.05). In addition, the coffee diets were not associated with differences in tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6, which have been implicated in the pathogenesis of bone loss together with interleukin-1beta. In conclusion, the present study strongly indicates that coffee does not stimulate bone loss in rats.
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. sakamoto@den.hokudai.ac.jp
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D000596:Amino Acids / Q000652:urine; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D016723:Bone Remodeling; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000378:metabolism*; D002110:Caffeine / Q000097:blood; D002118:Calcium / Q000652:urine; D003069:Coffee; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D015675:Osteocalcin / Q000097:blood; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000652:urine; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism
D000596:Amino Acids; D003069:Coffee; D015850:Interleukin-6; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D015675:Osteocalcin; D010758:Phosphorus; D002110:Caffeine; C036020:deoxypyridinoline; D002118:Calcium