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Drinking Coffee Could Cut Death Risk
Researchers have said that consuming two or more cups of coffee each day reduces the risk of death from liver cirrhosis by 66 per cent, specifically cirrhosis caused by non-viral hepatitis.Lead researcher, Dr. Woon-Puay Koh with Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and the National University of Singapore, said prior evidence suggests that coffee may reduce liver damage in patients with chronic liver disease.
He said that their study examined the effects of consuming coffee, alcohol, black tea, green tea, and soft drinks on risk of mortality from cirrhosis.
This prospective population-based study, known as The Singapore Chinese Health Study, recruited 63,275 Chinese subjects between the ages of 45 and 74 living in Singapore.
Participants provided information on diet, lifestyle choices, and medical history during in-person interviews conducted between 1993 and 1998. Patients were followed for an average of nearly 15 years, during which time there were 14,928 deaths (24 per cent); 114 of them died from liver cirrhosis. The mean age of death was 67 years.
Findings indicate that those who drank at least 20 g of ethanol daily had a greater risk of cirrhosis mortality compared to non-drinker. In contrast, coffee intake was associated with a lower risk of death from cirrhosis, specifically for non-viral hepatitis related cirrhosis.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a chronic liver disease related to the metabolic syndrome and more sedentary affluent lifestyle, likely predominates among the non-viral hepatitis related cirrhosis group. In fact, subjects who drank two or more cups per day had a 66 per cent reduction in mortality risk, compared to non-daily coffee drinkers.
The findings have been published in journal Hepatology.
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Bigger Than Ass
June 24, 2014 at 10:46 am
Bigger Than Ass,,,,,,
ChiKA
June 24, 2014 at 11:53 am
Scientists are not to be taken seriously sometimes, today they say caffeine is harmful to one’s health, tomorrow ati it can cut death risk.
Kepusha Takolelwe Bowa
June 24, 2014 at 2:13 pm
Can you tell us pantu fwe bambi twalileka nokwikata coffee ati pantu ilaleta BP. So now whihc is whihc?
Kamushi
June 24, 2014 at 6:14 pm
scientists say a chinese human skin triples the strngth of the white blood cells & r able to kill the H.I.V.virus after this research dey also said yoghurt helps boast the immune system.we’v got enuf chinese pipo in zambia u can try if u bliv these lunatics
Trixy
June 25, 2014 at 2:39 pm
I agree with you. Some of us stopped taking coffee a long time ago for fear of BP. Now we are told it has a plus in as far as life span is concerned. Hello someone???
Naine
June 26, 2014 at 1:28 am
One day they ll tell us to stop going to the toilet
Naine
June 26, 2014 at 1:30 am
One day they ll tell us to stop going to the toilet as it will increase our lifespan