Drinking Coffee Can Reduce Probability of Death Due to Diabetes
Posted on: 18/Nov/2015 10:08:49 AM
Researchers have newly found that consumption of 2 to 3 cups of coffee every day will reduce the possibility of death due to heart disease, diabetes and suicide. The study results show that those who consumed moderate levels of coffee - lesser than five cups - enjoyed lesser risk of death caused due to neurological diseases, type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and suicide.
The result was applicable to consumption of both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee which indicates that the positive effect of drinking coffee is not just due to the caffeine content but the very nature of chemical compounds that comprise coffee beans.
The bioactive compounds contained in coffee helps reduce insulin resistance and systemic inflammation, says Ming Ding, the fist author of the study and doctoral student, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.
These may be responsible for the inverse association between mortality and coffee. The biological mechanisms that give rise to these effects need to be studied, however. The findings of this study are based on data obtained from three ongoing studies including 74,890 women in Nurses Health Surgery, 93,054 women in Nurses Health Study, and 40,557 men in Health Professional follow-up study.
The participants of the study were assessed with validated food questionnaires. They wer followed in the same way for about 30 years. In this course of three decades, there were 19,524 deaths of women and 12,432 deaths of men due to range of causes. Generally, it is observed that those who consume large volume of coffee were prone to drinking alcohol and smoke. The researchers then intended to distinguish the effect of smoking and coffee consumption and hence the analysis was repeated with never-smokers which resulted in protective benefits of coffee.
A senior author of the study states that coffee can be a part of regular balanced diet. However, it is important for certain people to be cautious about the intake of coffee. This population includes pregnant women, children, etc, he added.
This study involving Ambika Satija and Shilpa N Bhupathiraju (both from Harvard) has however not been designed to show the direct cause or relationship between coffee consumption and dying out of illness. Hence these findings need to be interpreted with caution, say researchers.
The previous studies conducted on consumption of coffee and total risk and cause-specific death have observed inconsistent association. This new study points that consumption of coffee comes with couple of health benefits.
