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Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults
- riku_iki 2y agokinda obvious: you drink coffee late, have trouble sleeping, and all kind of consequences as result..
- saulpw 2y agoThey supposedly accounted for sleep differences already.
- autoexec 2y agoI wish they'd used hours after waking/before sleeping vs simply defining morning as between 4am and 12:00pm or evening as being between 5pm and 4:am People who wake and work later would normally drink coffee more often at later hours and there's already a bunch a research showing 2nd/3rd shifts can cause health issues which wouldn't show up in the people who get up at 5am and have a cup or two in the next few hours.
- sandspar 2y agoNutrition and psychology studies with soundbite conclusions like this almost always fail to replicate.
- Neywiny 2y agoWould be nice to have more of a control with non coffee drinkers.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoHow even small lifestyle habits, like when you drink your coffee, can have an impact on life
- oniony 2y agoOr life could have an impact on when you drink your coffee.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoExactly. I think this study could equally be interpreted as demonstrating the limitations of the researchers ability to control for variables.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoOur habits shape our lives, but our circumstances and routines often dictate those habits...
- peterlk 2y agoI think it’s worth accompanying this study with the Simpson’s Paradox [0]. I don’t want to dismiss the conclusions of the paper, but temper expectations for individuals considering lifestyle changes. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox