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Giant research: Coffee drinkers live longer!
Analysis of half a million records in the United Kingdom (UK) Biobank database showed that those who drank 2-3 cups of coffee a day tended to live longer and were less affected by cardiovascular disease, compared to those who did not drink coffee at all.
UK Biobank is a large-scale database of records on people’s genetics, health and lifestyle. For this study, health and nutrition data equivalent to 12.5 years were obtained from the database for 449,563 people with an average age of 58 years.
The people whose data were taken were divided into groups according to their daily coffee consumption. In total, 100,000 people stated that they did not drink coffee.
Peter Kistler, an electrophysiologist at the Baker Heart Diabetes Institute in Australia, and his team compared data from people who consumed coffee and those who did not consume coffee to heart disease and death from any cause during the study period.
Those who drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day live longer!
In the analysis, it was determined that consuming instant (granules), beans (Turkish coffee made by grinding beans, filter coffee, espresso, etc.) and decaffeinated coffee were associated with a lower risk of death. Those who drank 2 or 3 cups of coffee a day were more likely to live longer than those who never drank coffee…
