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Coffee by the Tank Car Does Not Increase Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

By Peggy Peck, Managing Editor, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
April 24, 2006
Also covered by: Forbes

MedPage Today Action Points

* Advise interested patients that this report found no association for consumption of total caffeine, decaffeinated coffee, or tea with coronary heart disease. Thus, these data provide no evidence that coffee consumption increases the risk of coronary heart disease.

* Explain to interested patients that drinking unfiltered French press or boiled coffee has been shown to increase LDL.

Review
BOSTON, April 24 – Gallons and gallons of coffee, day in and day out, year after year, decade after decade, do not increase the risk of coronary heart disease, researchers here reported today.

In fact, men and women who drank six or more cups of coffee a day for up to 20 years had a slightly lower relative risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who consumed a cup or less a day (P for trend= 0.41 for men and 0.08 for women) according to a study in the April 25 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association.

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