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posted by CoolHand on Friday July 14 2017, @09:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the java-chugging dept.

Studies Suggest Healthy Adults Drink More Coffee when they Live Longer

Drinking coffee could lead to a longer life, scientist says

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Here's another reason to start the day with a cup of joe: Scientists have found that people who drink coffee appear to live longer.

Drinking coffee was associated with a lower risk of death due to heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and respiratory and kidney disease for African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Latinos and whites.

People who consumed a cup of coffee a day were 12 percent less likely to die compared to those who didn't drink coffee. This association was even stronger for those who drank two to three cups a day -- 18 percent reduced chance of death.

Lower mortality was present regardless of whether people drank regular or decaffeinated coffee, suggesting the association is not tied to caffeine, said Veronica W. Setiawan, lead author of the study and an associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

"We cannot say drinking coffee will prolong your life, but we see an association," Setiawan said. "If you like to drink coffee, drink up! If you're not a coffee drinker, then you need to consider if you should start."

The study, which will be published in the July 11 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, used data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, a collaborative effort between the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and the Keck School of Medicine.

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Two studies showed a link between coffee-drinking and a propensity toward longevity, but stopped short of proving cause and effect. [...] one downside to the research is the fact that many people stop drinking coffee -- or drink less of it -- when they are ill, a "bias that is very hard to fully overcome."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @09:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @09:43PM (#539355)

    Studies Suggest Healthy Adults Drink More Coffee when they Live Longer

    I would like to know what the test subjects opted to drink after premature death? Does the headline propose to suggest that the dead test subjects were no longer qualified for the "live" group?

    It doesn't say if they continued to drink more coffee if they died unexpectedly -- only that after they already lived longer, they decided to drink more coffee at that time.

    That's good news for people that hate coffee due to the flavor -- the study suggests that because old people lose a sense of taste, the ones that live longest will happily swig $15 cups at starbucks without complaint.

    The ones that are not already living longer or died already are drinking something else.