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"Conclusions: [...] Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups/d, and heavy coffe
by nirv 9y ago
"Conclusions: [...] Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups/d, and heavy coffee consumption was not associated with elevated CVD risk."
I am confused here (with the word "inversely"). Do I understand correctly that: a) moderate consumption of coffee leads to a reduction in the risk of CVD compared to when a person does not drink coffee at all, and b) strong consumption does not affect CVD risk comparing to the moderate coffee consumption?
- hannob 9y agoYes. This is also not very surprising. There's been plenty of research indicating that coffee consumption has moderate health benefits. This should all be taken with a grain of salt. Researching nutrition and particularly its long term effects is extremely difficult and prone to all kinds of biases, as you usually can't practically do controlled studies. But as far as the research we have tells us drinking coffee is not so bad.
- lozf 9y agoYes, and on the subject of salt; a tiny pinch in a cup of coffee really does help to bring out the flavour. I've no idea about the effects on health, (probably depends on the rest of ones sodium intake) but it tastes good.
- kazinator 9y ago+1 I put a pinch of salt in my coffee. It modifies the flavor in a subtle way that is hard to describe.
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- vmware513 9y agoI am actively running this experiment. I will comment back 50 years later to share my experience. ;)
- MaysonL 9y agoAfter about 50 years, it works for me…
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoI wish you many more years to go on with your experiment!
- eb0la 9y agoI wish you're over 40 (or 50). Will be glad to see your update in 2067 :-)
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- nabla9 9y agoThe relative risk vs coffee consumption curve fist goes below 1.0 (no coffee = 1.0) and reaches minimum around 3-5 cups then starts to increase slowly again. cardiovascular disease and stroke risk go above 1.0 after 9-10 cups per day. The study mentions that results may not apply to unfiltered coffee (eg, French press, Scandinavian boiled, or Turkish/Greek coffee). Other studies have shown that cholesterol-raising factor in coffee does not pass a paper filter.
- mirimir 9y agoI typically drink one large coffee (30g beans) per day. That's about three standard cups. Plus 100mg modafinil. Without the modafinil, I typically drank about twice that. With that much coffee, I occasionally experienced premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). Which are extremely disconcerting, but rarely fatal. Or at least, that's what the cardiac specialist said, after the isotope imaging stress test ;) And generally, I'm happier with the caffeine-modafinil combination.
- jraby3 9y agoYes you understood the conclusion correctly. The lowest risk of CVD is for people drinking 3-5 cups daily.
- baby 9y agoKnowning that correlation does not imply causation, does that mean that it could be more counter intuitive here? Meaning that people with better heart condition stands coffee better and are hence more apt to drink more? I personally go into an annoying (if not dangerous?)) tachycardia if I would drink 2 cups of coffee.
- benutzername 9y agosame as therapeutical amphetamine
- discoursism 9y ago> Do I understand correctly that ... moderate consumption of coffee leads to a reduction in the risk of CVD You do not understand correctly. :) Moderate coffee consumption is associated with a reduction in the risk of CVD. It is more likely than not that there is no causal relationship here, or that any causal relationship that does exist is significantly less powerful than the observed relationship.
- coldtea 9y ago>Definitely not. Says who? Just because correlation is not the same as causation doesn't mean a correlation means there is "definitely not" a causation.
- discoursism 9y agoI was not clear about what I was trying to reply to. I've expanded my quote and reworded. Thanks for pointing this out.
- nerdponx 9y ago"leads to" is a really dangerous term here.