Professor Lucci’s research team at the University of Tulane in the U.S. announced on the 8th that the relationship between the time and amount of coffee drinking and the risk of death in 47,725 adults in the U.S. has been observed for 9.8 years.
The research team classified the participants into ‘a group that mainly drinks coffee in the morning’, ‘a group that drinks coffee all day’, and ‘a group that does not drink coffee’.
As a result of the analysis, the group who mainly drink coffee in the morning was 31% lower than the group who did not drink coffee due to cardiovascular disease. The risk of death from all causes was also 16% lower.
However, there was no significant difference between the coffee-drinking group and the non-coffee-drinking group all day.
The group who drank coffee in the morning had a lower risk of death regardless of the amount of coffee they drank. Among them, those who drank more than two cups of coffee had a greater reduction in the risk of death than those who drank less than one cup.
Professor Lucci explained, “This may be because coffee in the afternoon or evening affects hormones such as biorhythm and melatonin, which leads to changes in cardiovascular risk factors such as inflammation and blood pressure.” He added, “However, additional clinical trials are needed to verify this result.”
JULIE KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
