According to two newly published studies published in the
Annals of Internal Medicine, more consumption of coffee could lead to a longer
life.
One study surveyed more than 520,000 people in 10 European
countries, making it the largest study thus far on coffee and mortality, and
found that drinking more coffee could meaningfully lower a person's risk of
mortality.
The second study focused on non-white populations. After
surveying over 185,000 African-Americans, Native Americans, Hawaiians,
Japanese-Americans, Latinos and whites, the researchers found that coffee
increases longevity
across various races.
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Veronica Wendy Setiawan, associate professor of preventative
medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine, who led the study on nonwhite populations,
said “people who drank two to four cups a day had an 18% lower risk of death
compared with people who did not drink coffee. These findings are consistent
with previous studies that had looked at majority white populations. Given
these very diverse populations, all these people have different lifestyles.
They have very different dietary habits and different susceptibilities and we
still find similar patterns”.
The new study shows that there is a stronger biological
possibility for the relationship between coffee and longevity
and found that mortality was inversely related to coffee consumption for heart
disease, cancer, respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.
The study on European countries revealed an inverse
association between coffee and liver disease, suicide in men, cancer in women,
digestive diseases and circulatory diseases. Those who drank three or more cups
a day had a lower risk for all-cause death than people who did not drink
coffee.
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