Coffee doesn’t affect your heart
That hot (or cold) cup of coffee does not increase the risk of a heart attack.
Go ahead and have that second cup of coffee. A recent study shows that heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people. However heavy coffee drinkers who tend to smoke and drink alcohol more often have chances of heart attacks, which followed 128,000 men and women for as long as 20 years, showed that drinking filtered coffee did not raise the risk of heart disease.
"We believe this study clearly shows there is no association between filtered coffee consumption and heart disease," said Esther Lopez, an instructor in the School of Medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, who worked on the study. This lack of effect is good news, because coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world.
There is no link between heart disease and how much caffeine people drink. But this does not mean that everyone can overload with impunity. "We can't exclude the association between coffee consumption and the risk of (heart disease) in small groups of people," Van Dam said in a statement.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that
people with a "slow" version of a particular liver enzyme gene had a higher risk of heart disease if they drank more coffee, compared to those with a fastmetabolising version. Liver enzymes metabolise coffee and many other compounds.
The researchers found more than half the women and 30 per cent of men who drank six
or more cups of coffee a day were also more likely to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and use aspirin, and were less likely to drink tea, exercise or take vitamin supplements.
Once these factors were accounted for, there was no difference in heart attack risks between the light and heavy coffee drinkers.
Go ahead and have that second cup of coffee. A recent study shows that heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people. However heavy coffee drinkers who tend to smoke and drink alcohol more often have chances of heart attacks, which followed 128,000 men and women for as long as 20 years, showed that drinking filtered coffee did not raise the risk of heart disease.
"We believe this study clearly shows there is no association between filtered coffee consumption and heart disease," said Esther Lopez, an instructor in the School of Medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, who worked on the study. This lack of effect is good news, because coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world.
There is no link between heart disease and how much caffeine people drink. But this does not mean that everyone can overload with impunity. "We can't exclude the association between coffee consumption and the risk of (heart disease) in small groups of people," Van Dam said in a statement.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that
people with a "slow" version of a particular liver enzyme gene had a higher risk of heart disease if they drank more coffee, compared to those with a fastmetabolising version. Liver enzymes metabolise coffee and many other compounds.
The researchers found more than half the women and 30 per cent of men who drank six
or more cups of coffee a day were also more likely to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and use aspirin, and were less likely to drink tea, exercise or take vitamin supplements.
Once these factors were accounted for, there was no difference in heart attack risks between the light and heavy coffee drinkers.
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