Coffee Isn’t Linked to Atrial Fibrillation, Study Says

Have you ever drunk so much coffee that you’ve started to feel like you’re shaking here there and everywhere?

Well according to a new scientific study you haven’t.

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For ages we’ve been under the impression that caffeine (or coffee) shakes is real thing, but researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have determined that coffee, even when drunk in large quantities, is not associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, the posh term for irregular and abnormally quick heartbeats.

Atrial fibrillation is quite a serious problem. These fluttering heartbeats if consistent and left unchecked can lead to many heath complications.

Previously, we assumed that consumption of caffeine brought about the shakes which wore off and weren’t anything to worry about. But this study changes everything.

With Dr. Susanna Larsson at the helm, the research team working out of Stockholm looked over four previous studies in this area and performed an overreaching meta-analysis of those results.

They poured through the results of one leading piece of research that in the late 1990s examined 75,000 people’s coffee consumption and health problems, a tenth of whom reported cases of atrial fibrillation during a twelve year period.

Looking through these instances in further detail the Swedish team found that there was no correlation between a fluttering or hypersensitive heart beat and coffee consumption, even if the number of cups downed per day were extremely high.

Another three studies were investigated and similar results were found across the board, as Larsson explained in a press release:

“We find no evidence that high consumption of coffee increases the risk of atrial fibrillation.

“People who like coffee can safely continue to consume it, at least in moderation, without the risk of developing this condition.”