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Researchers Find No Link Between Habitual Coffee Consumption and Arrhythmia

posted by martyb on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:29AM   

upstart writes:

Researchers Find No Link between Habitual Coffee Consumption and Arrhythmia:

In a large, prospective, population-based community cohort study of 386,258 coffee drinkers, greater amounts of habitual coffee consumption were inversely associated with a lower risk of cardiac arrhythmia; in fact, each additional daily cup of coffee was associated with a 3% reduced risk of developing an arrhythmia; these associations were not significantly modified by genetic variants that affect caffeine metabolism.

“Coffee is the primary source of caffeine for most people, and it has a reputation for causing or exacerbating arrhythmias,” said Professor Gregory Marcus, a researcher in the Division of Cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco.

“But we found no evidence that caffeine consumption leads to a greater risk of arrhythmias.”

“Our population-based study provides reassurance that common prohibitions against caffeine to reduce arrhythmia risk are likely unwarranted.”

[...] The higher amounts of coffee were actually associated with a 3% reduced risk of developing an arrhythmia.

“Only a randomized clinical trial can definitively demonstrate clear effects of coffee or caffeine consumption,” Professor Marcus said.

[...] “Coffee’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties may play a role, and some properties of caffeine could be protective against some arrhythmias.”

[Bolding in original removed.]

Journal Reference:
Eun-jeong Kim, Thomas J. Hoffmann, Gregory Nah, et al. Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias, JAMA Internal Medicine (DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.3616)

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Original Submission

• Triple negative? Triple negative? (Score: 4, Touché) by inertnet on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:18AM (3 children)

  by inertnet (4071) on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:18AM (#1159078) Journal

  English is not my native language, so I could be wrong, but this sentence:

  greater amounts of habitual coffee consumption were inversely associated with a lower risk of cardiac arrhythmia

  to me reads as if drinking more coffee increases the risk, while this sentence means the exact opposite:

  in fact, each additional daily cup of coffee was associated with a 3% reduced risk of developing an arrhythmia

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• Re:Triple negative? (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:35AM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:35AM (#1159083) Homepage

  Your English is great, and your comprehension of what was written, namely that it was contradictory, is spot on. It's the science journalists whose English language skills need to be called into question, not yours.

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• Re:Triple negative? (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:39AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @10:39AM (#1159084)

  You are correct. What you have demonstrated is that the average non-native English speaker has a better grasp of English than the average SoylentNews editor.

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• Re:Triple negative? (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:44PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:44PM (#1159154)

  Made perfect sense to me. Learn to speak American before you start criticizing the President's language.

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