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Coffee drinking increases risk of heart attack
Wake up and smell the coffee! And if you’re really perceptive, you might also smell the risk of heart attack. Dr. Lucio Mos, a cardiologist with the Hospital of San Daniele del Friuli in Udine, Italy, presented a research study to the European Society of Cardiologists (ESC) Congress. The study states that coffee drinking in younger adults with mild hypertension has an adverse effect on cardiovascular health – specifically, it increased their risk for developing conditions that lead to heart attacks.
According to Dr. Mos, the medical community is not completely clear about the effects of drinking coffee on long-term heart health for patients with mild hypertension. They decided to study the effects of coffee on the heart, high blood pressure and glucose metabolism.
For the study, the team did a 12-year analysis of 1201 participants between the ages of 18 and 45. All the participants had mild hypertension (systolic blood pressure between 140 and 159 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure between 90 and 99 mmHg). Among the participants, 26.3 percent didn’t drink coffee at all, 62.7 percent were moderate coffee users (1-3 cups of coffee per day) and 10 percent were heavy coffee drinkers (more than 4 cups of coffee per day).
Read more: http://www.belmarrahealth.com/coffee-drinking-increases-risk-of-heart-attack/
