Coffee and Heart Disease

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Coffee and Heart Disease

Post Number:#1  Post by Seymore Spectacles » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:35 am

BACKGROUND: A large amount of cohort studies addressed coffee consumption and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and yielded inconsistent results. We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the pooling effects.

METHODS:
We searched for all published English articles indexed in MEDLINE or PubMed from January 1966 to January 2008. Twenty-one independent prospective cohort studies, which tested CHD risk by coffee consumption, were identified. A general variance-based method was used to pool the relative risks (RR). 15,599 cases from 407,806 participants were included in pooling the overall effects.

RESULTS:
As compared to the light coffee consumption (<1 cup/d in US or </=2 cups/d in Europe), under the random-effects model, the pooled CHD RRs (95% CI) for all studies combined were 0.96 (0.87-1.06), 1.04 (0.92-1.17) and 1.07 (0.87-1.32) for the moderate (1-3 or 3-4 cups/d), heavy (4-5 or 5-6 cups/d) and very heavy (>/=6 or >/=7 cups/d) categories of coffee consumption (all p>0.05); Moderate coffee consumption showed significantly lower CHD RR (95% CI) of 0.82 (0.73-0.92) (p<0.001) in women, and of 0.87 (0.80-0.86) (p=0.001) in men and women followed </=10 years.

CONCLUSION:
Our findings do not support the hypothesis that coffee consumption increases the long-term risk of coronary heart disease. Habitual moderate coffee drinking was associated with a lower risk of CHD in women.

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Re: Coffee and Heart Disease

Post Number:#2  Post by carlp » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:01 pm

I'm starting to use baking cocoa to my coffee instead of creamer. It gives my coffee a distinct flavor, plus I'm getting lots of antioxidants.


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