Coffee good for heart health – Large study

Coffee good for heart health – Large study Usually physicians, including me, ask patients with cardiovascular disease to avoid coffee, especially for those with cardiac arrhythmia [1]. Now, here is a study which says that taking 2-3 cups of decaffeinated, ground or instant coffee a day is associated with significant reductions in incident cardiovascular disease and mortality. Even more, ground and instant coffee, but not decaffeinated coffee was associated with reduced arrhythmia [2]. In fact, coffee consumption at 3-4 cups per day has been described as probably not harmful and perhaps even moderately beneficial in the 2021 European Society of Cardiology prevention of cardiovascular disease guidelines. But they have mentioned that non-filtered coffee contains LDL cholesterol raising cafestol and kahweol and may be associated with 25% increased risk of mortality due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by consumption of nine or more drinks per day! [3]. The UK Biobank study recruited participants aged 40 to 69 years between 2006 to 2010. There were 449 563 participants in the final study cohort after various exclusions. Median age was 58 years and median follow up was 12.5 years. 100,510 non-coffee drinkers served as controls. 6.7% of the participants had arrhythmia, which included 3.4% of atrial fibrillation or flutter, 0.7% of supraventricular tachycardia, and 0.4% of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Compared with non-drinkers, a U-shaped relationship wa...
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