Madrid, Spain – Coffee Drinkers Might Live Longer

Madrid, Spain – Drinking three cups of coffee a day could reduce the risk of women dying from heart disease by a quarter.

The team also found that drinking lots of coffee is not harmful, as those who consumed up to six cups a day were not at increased risk of death, as has been suggested previously.
The research published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine tracked over 84,000 women and 41,000 men for around twenty years.

Study author Dr Esther Lopez-Garcia, from the School of Medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, said: “Coffee consumption was not associated with a higher risk of mortality in middle-aged men and women. The possibility of a modest benefit of coffee consumption on heart disease, cancer, and other causes of death needs to be further investigated.”

Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 per cent lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up period compared with people who did not drink coffee, and an 18 per cent lower risk of death caused by something other than cancer or heart disease.
For men, three cups of coffee daily was not linked with either a higher or a lower risk of death. The researchers found that people who drank more coffee were less likely to die during the follow-up period. This was mainly because of lower risk for heart disease deaths among coffee drinkers.

The researchers found no association between coffee drinking and cancer deaths. Those who drank decaffeinated coffee also had lower death rates than those who did not drink coffee.