A new study revealed that people who drink coffee – with or without sugar – are less likely to die prematurely.The Guardian“.
The study found that the risk of death was reduced by 29 percent for people who drank between 2.5 and 4.5 cups of coffee a day.
A lower risk of death was also seen for sugar-sweetened coffee, at least for those who drank between 1.5 and 3.5 cups a day. The trend was less pronounced for people using artificial sweeteners.
After taking into account factors including age, gender, race, educational level, smoking status, amount of physical activity, body mass index and diet, the researchers found that compared to those who did not drink coffee, coffee drinkers had a lower risk of death.
The study was published in the journal “Annals of Internal Medicine‘, to data from more than 171,000 participants in a UK long-term biological study investigating the contribution of genetic predisposition and environmental vulnerability to disease development since 2006.
The researchers used data from death certificates to track participants for a mean time of seven years from 2009, during which 3,177 people died.
Previous studies have indicated that coffee may be beneficial to health, as drinking coffee is linked to a lower risk of diseases ranging from chronic liver disease to some types of cancer and even dementia.
Researchers in China found that people who consumed a moderate amount of coffee per day, whether it was sweetened with sugar or not, had a lower risk of death over a seven-year period compared to those who did not.
According to the British Coffee Association, 98 cups of coffee are drunk daily in the United Kingdom, while the number of cups consumed daily in the United States is 517 million, according to the National Coffee Association.
In contrast, Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, who was not involved in the study, cautioned that the results – while intriguing – were not straightforward.
“The observational nature of this new study means that these conclusions are far from definitive,” he said.
