- New research says coffee might give you more than an energy boost
- Drinking a certain amount could reduce risk of heart disease or stroke
- Study took into account more than 360,000 people in the UK
We all know people who say things like ‘don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee’ but it appears that there is more to the drink than kicking your brain into life of a morning.
Moderate amounts of caffeine
Researchers from Soochow University in China have published research that found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee or tea is associated with a lower risk of a person developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity.
Cardiometabolic multimorbidity is a condition that contains two or more of these conditions: stroke, coronary heart disease and diabetes.
Researchers studied data from the UK Biobank, a huge long-term study of about 500,000 people aged 37-73. For the study, about 360,000 people were analysed – those ambiguous about caffeine intake were not included.
It was found that people who routinely drank about three cups of coffee or tea per day – about 200-300mg of caffeine – had a lower chance of developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity. Indeed, those people with moderate intake of caffeine had a 48.1% reduction in risk of developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity compared to those who consumed less than 100mg of caffeine per day.
Far reaching benefits
Co-lead author Chaofu Ke, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Soochow University, said that promoting moderate amounts of coffee or caffeine intake as a dietary habit could have far-reaching benefits for the prevention of cardiometabolic multimorbidity.
But Ke added that future studies are needed to gain a greater understanding of the relationship between caffeine and cardiometabolic multimorbidity.
In other science news, earlier this year, it was revealed that a revolutionary new solution for patients with severe heart failure at the terminal stage, who cannot be treated with other available options has been developed.
