Coffee Cardiovascular Disease

This review evaluates the evidence on the effect of habitual coffee consumption on cvd incidence and mortality.

Coffee cardiovascular disease.

Coffee caffeine and blood pressure. The results are conflicting. In their final analysis prof. A dutch study followed 37 514 participants over 13 years with 1 387 cases of coronary heart disease.

However more recent and more careful studies have suggested that coffee probably does not increase the risk of heart disease. Coffee was said to increase blood pressure increase cholesterol levels and increase the risk of heart attack and cardiac arrhythmias. Nurminen ml niittynen l korpela r vapaatalo h. In men no association with coronary heart disease was seen 11.

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages and some studies have suggested it may be related to cardiovascular disease cvd the leading cause of poor health in the world. For coffee consumption a u shaped association with slightly reduced risk for coronary heart disease was observed with the lowest risk in the group seen at 2 3 cups per day 12. The american journal of cardiology. Coffee still has potential risks mostly due to its high caffeine content.

Coffee may offer some protection against. Many studies have been done to see if there s a direct link between caffeine coffee drinking and coronary heart disease. When newer studies adjusted for such factors they found a possible association between coffee and decreased mortality. 41 we can only speculate as to why the men aged 60 and above fared worse with unfiltered coffee regarding.

Eur j clin nutr. Crossref medline google scholar. Heart attack and stroke. In the past coffee was generally regarded as being detrimental to heart health.

A number of meta analyses have reviewed the associations between coffee consumption and cardiovascular disease cvd overall with many concluding that there is no association between coffee drinking and an increased risk of cvd 1 7 some studies have suggested that the association can be illustrated with a u shaped curve with the greatest protection seen at a moderate intake of coffee 3. Whether high caffeine intake increases the risk of coronary heart disease is still under study. And in some cases may even be beneficial. More specifically habitual coffee drinking has been linked to a lower risk of coronary heart disease in women.

However a change in favorable direction is suggested from the findings of a 12 year follow up study where an adverse association between coffee consumption and coronary heart disease mortality during the first six years of follow up disappeared during the last six years of follow up. Higher consumption of coffee caffeinated and decaf alike was associated with a lower risk of total mortality including deaths attributed to heart disease nervous system diseases and suicide. Caffeinated coffee consumption cardiovascular disease and heart valve disease in the elderly from the framingham study.