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Yes, that is good news for you (us) coffee drinkers. This supports plenty of more recent studies which have shown the health benefits of coffee which is still overcoming a bad reputation.
So, what did these researchers actually find?
This was a large-scale observational study spanning a time period of 12.5 years and following 449’563 participants: coffee drinkers were compared to non-drinkers for the incidence of arrhythmias, cardiovascular disease and death, after adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, obstructive sleep apnoea, smoking status, and tea and alcohol consumption.
The coffee drinkers were categorised into different groups depending on their daily consumption.
What the researchers saw is that all coffee drinkers were inked with a reduction in death of any cause. This includes those who drank only decaffeinated coffee (14% reduction). There also differences between ground and instant coffee with the largest effect seen in group coffee (a dramatic 27% reduction) and those who drank two to three cups a day.
Similarly, cardiovascular disease is lower in those who regularly drink coffee of any sort with the same pattern as above: ground coffee (a 20% reduction) and two to three cups a day had the lowest correlation.
