Drinking coffee reduced mortality

A new study has brought joy to coffee lovers: drinking coffee regularly (about 6 cups a day) does not increase mortality even in men or women. In fact, caffeinated or non-caffeine coffee is associated with a low death rate for people with heart disease.

Esther Lopez-Garcia, PhD., And the lead author of the study, said: 'The habit of drinking coffee involves a lot of beneficial effects as well as being harmful to health but not much data yet. about the relationship of that habit to mortality. Drinking coffee is not associated with higher mortality rates in middle-aged men and women. The link between the benefits of coffee drinking habits with heart disease, cancer and other causes of death will be studied later. '

Women who drank about 2 to 3 cups of caffeine daily had a 25% lower risk of death for heart disease during the follow-up period (from 1980 to 2004 with 84,214 women participating). ) compared to people who do not drink coffee. The risk of death decreased by 18% for other causes of death besides heart disease and cancer for those who drank coffee compared to those who did not drink during the follow-up period. For men, the level of drinking coffee did not reduce or increase the mortality rate during the follow-up period from 1986 to 2004 with 41,736 participants.

A new study shows that regular consumption of caffeine with or without caffeine (about 6 cups a day) is associated with low mortality rates for people with heart disease.(Photo: info.cwlfly.com)

Researchers analyzed data from 84,314 women who participated in the Health Study and 41,736 men who participated in the next Professional Health Study. To participate in the current study, participants must ensure that they do not have cancer or heart disease at the time of the study.

They must complete a questionnaire every two to four years, including questions about how often they drink coffee, other eating habits, smoking and health status. The researchers then compared the frequency of death for any cause, due to heart disease and cancer in people with different coffee drinking habits.

Of the women involved, 2,368 people died of heart disease, 5,011 people died of cancer, and 3,716 died of other causes. For men, 2,049 people died of heart disease, 2,491 died of cancer, and 2,348 died of other causes.

While contemplating other risk factors, such as body size, smoking and eating habits, and specific diseases, researchers found that people who drank a lot of coffee had lower mortality rates in throughout the tracking period. The cause may be due to the risk of death from heart disease in low coffee drinkers. However, there is no link between coffee drinking habits and cancer deaths. It seems that this is not related to caffeine because people who drink caffeine have lower mortality rates than those who do not drink coffee.

The editors of Annals of Internal Medicine warn that the study is not certain that coffee can reduce the risk of premature death. Perhaps there is something that protects those who drink coffee. At the same time, the calculation error in assessing coffee drinking habits is inevitable because this estimation habit is announced by participants. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Reference article:

Lopez-Garcia, van Dam, Li, Rodriguez-Artalejo, and Hu. The Relationship of Coffee Consumption with Mortality (The relationship of coffee drinking habits with mortality). Annals of Internal Medicine, June 16, 2008