Another disease can be prevented by ... drinking coffee

The new study, led by Professor Anne Tybjærg-Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) surveyed over 104,000 people, including nearly 7,300 people with gallstones and found that with 6 cups of coffee a day, the risk Your gallstones disease will be reduced by up to 23%.

If you consider each cup, adding every cup of coffee during the day reduces the risk by more than 3%.

Coffee can help fight gallstones - (artwork from the internet).

This is an observational study, so the mechanism has not been clearly analyzed, but some previous scientific evidence suggests that coffee entering the body seems to prevent the formation of gallstones. In addition, there are two genetic variants in the human body, CYP1A1 / A2 (rs2472297) and AHR (rs4410790), which appear to be associated with coffee consumption and are also associated with a lower risk of gallstones.

Gallstones are a disease of the digestive tract, there are 2 main types are cholesterol and bile pigment stones. Cholesterol stones are mainly due to age, eating a lot of foods rich in cholesterol, fat, due to certain drugs or complications of some digestive tract diseases. Pigment stones are mainly caused by bacterial infections, parasites, due to an unbalanced diet (too little fat and protein), cirrhosis and some congenital blood diseases.

The research has just been published in the scientific journal Journal of Internal Medicine.

6 cups / day is also the maximum figure that a previous study of the University of South Australia, to coffee promote benefits in cardiovascular disease prevention. Too little can cause negligible benefits, but too much can damage the heart, reversing the beneficial effects.

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