Can coffee trigger heart attacks?
Recent research appearing in the September issue of the journal Epidemiology shows that drinking coffee may trigger a heart attack, with the highest risk posed to light coffee drinkers.
A team of researchers from Brown University School of Medicine conducted a study of 503 non-fatal heart attack patients in Costa Rica, and found that coffee drinkers ran a higher risk of heart attack. Moderate coffee drinkers - drinking two or three cups a day - ran a 60 percent higher risk of heart attack after drinking a cup of coffee, while little effect was noted among heavy coffee drinkers, who consume four or more cups per day.
Light coffee drinkers who drink up to one cup a day ran the highest heart attack risk of a four times increased risk with just one cup of coffee.
Coffee drinkers with multiple risk factors for heart attack should try to engage in an active lifestyle and remove as many risk factors as possible, since just one cup of coffee "could be the final straw" - Professor Ahmed El-Sohemy, Ph.D., an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto.
A team of researchers from Brown University School of Medicine conducted a study of 503 non-fatal heart attack patients in Costa Rica, and found that coffee drinkers ran a higher risk of heart attack. Moderate coffee drinkers - drinking two or three cups a day - ran a 60 percent higher risk of heart attack after drinking a cup of coffee, while little effect was noted among heavy coffee drinkers, who consume four or more cups per day.
Light coffee drinkers who drink up to one cup a day ran the highest heart attack risk of a four times increased risk with just one cup of coffee.
Coffee drinkers with multiple risk factors for heart attack should try to engage in an active lifestyle and remove as many risk factors as possible, since just one cup of coffee "could be the final straw" - Professor Ahmed El-Sohemy, Ph.D., an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto.
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