I love coffee

MONDAY, 16 June (HealthDay News) – Are you a coffee drinker ? There is good news from Dr. Esther Lopez-Garcia, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain as lead researcher that with her team published its findings in the 17th June issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
A new study shows, drinking to six cups per day caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee per day will not shorten your life.In fact, especially for women, coffee may even help the heart. She said "Our results suggest that in the long term, regular consumption of coffee does not increase the risk of death and probably has some positive effects on health"
Lopez-Garcia said and stressed the results may only apply only to healthy people. “Caffeine is still an acute impact on the short-term increase in blood pressure so people with a disease or condition should ask their physician about their risk”

For men, drinking two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day was a "wash" - not with an increased or decreased risk of death during the follow-up, from 1986 to 2004.
And for women who drank two or three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease during the follow-up (from 1980 to 2004) also had a 18 percent lower risk of death from other causes than cancer or heart disease compared to non-coffee drinker.

More recently, research has found, drinking coffee in connection with a lower risk for type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer, and to prevent the emergence of cardiovascular diseases, Lopez-Garcia said. The strength of its recent study, she said, with a large number of participants and the long follow-up period.

Dr. Peter Galier said “Although the study was interesting, but it also has its shortcomings” He is a specialist in internal medicine, the former chief of staff in the Santa Monica UCLA and Orthopaedic Clinic and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles' David Geffen School of Medicine.

"I would tell them to a consideration of the subjective risk from the consumption of coffee," he said. For example, "if they love coffee, but it makes them nervous, and she can not sleep, the need to adapt," he said. "Look at your complaints," he tells patients. "If decaf is not a problem, I would not be a limit."

The research is funded by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. For more information at the American Dietetic Association.