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Heart disease: The popular drink that can lower your risk of the conditionACCORDING to statistics by the British Coffee Association, Britons drink approximately 95 million cups of coffee per

day. Contrary to the belief that tea is the favoured hot beverage of the UK, the coffee industry also creates over 210,000 jobs here and the industry is only growing. The UK's caffeine

addiction is not just beneficial for the economy, as a new study suggests coffee also has impressive health benefits. By Lauren Russell 21:56, Mon, Aug 30, 2021 | UPDATED: 21:56, Mon, Aug

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Participants in the largest-ever study of the popular beverage and its effects on health were divided into three groups based on their coffee intake. No coffee, light to moderate and high.

58 percent of participants were in the light to moderate intake group whereas 22 percent were in the no coffee group and 20 percent in high.

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The data collected by the UK Biobank- a biomedical database which holds genetic and health information on over 460,000 individuals, found some amazing results.

After adjusting for a range of other interfering factors that could influence health, researchers found that light to moderate coffee consumption was associated with a 12 percent lower risk

of death from any cause.

Even more specifically, there was a 17 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and 21 percent lower risk of stroke.

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intake can lower your risk of heart disease and strokes. Dr Judit Simon, of the Heart and Vascular Centre at Semmelweis University in Budapest who presented the research and wrote the report

said: “To our knowledge, this is the largest study to systematically assess the cardiovascular effects of regular coffee consumption in a population without diagnosed heart disease.

“Our results suggest that regular coffee consumption is safe, as even high daily intake was not associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality after a follow-up of

10 to 15 years.”

So what is meant by light to moderate intake?

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Well- when separating participants into the three study groups those in the light to moderate group drank anything between half a cup to three cups a day.

Those in the high intake group drank more than three.

Dr Simon continued to say: “Moreover, 0.5 to three cups of coffee per day was independently associated with lower risks of stroke, death from cardiovascular disease, and death from any

cause.”

In order to monitor the link between coffee consumption and heart structure, researchers used MRI scans.

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When compared to those that did not drink coffee regularly, daily consumers had healthier sized and better functioning hearts, said Dr Simon.

The precise reasoning behind this reduced risk is not known, yet Dr Simon suggested that it might be “partly explained by positive alterations in cardiac structure and function.”

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) can come in multiple different forms.

However, the four main types include:

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reduces risk

All four affect the heart and or blood vessels and can be extremely damaging to organs like the brain, heart, kidneys and eyes.

Although drinking coffee is not one, there are a number of ‘risk factors’ involved that might increase your chance of CVD.

These risk factors include smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and being overweight.

Therefore, some healthy lifestyle changes such as increasing exercise and reducing the amount you smoke can also reduce your risk of CVD.