Coffee Drinkers And Mortality Rates

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Diabetes in Control published a very interesting article recently about the correlation between coffee-drinking and mortality rates.

An odd relationship you might think, how can coffee affect how long you live?

However this was the subject of a recent and fascinating study.

The study looked at more than 40,000 patients over three decades and looked at a variety of data to work out whether there is a relationship between drinking coffee and rates of death from all causes.

There was also a focus on cardiovascular disease, which accounted for 32% of 2,512 deaths which occurred over the 17 year ‘median’ follow up.

It was suggested that there is no real statistical significance of high coffee consumption and mortality rate for individuals over the age of 55.

In addition, there seemed to be no association between heavy coffee consumption and mortality for women, although those under the age of 55 were at risk for a higher all-cause mortality risk, if they consumed more than 28 cups per week.

It was also suggested that excessive coffee consumption should be restricted and it was recommended that coffee drinkers should avoid drinking more than 4 cups of coffee each day.

It seemed that there was no significant relationship between cardiovascular mortality for either men or women and coffee consumption.

It should be added that other studies have concluded that coffee consumption may lead to lower mortality rates and that coffee has a benefit to overall health.

Obviously, it seems that more research needs to be done.