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(The New York Times News Service) -- If you're reading this over your morning cup of coffee, you can sip away with the comforting thought that a new study found no relationship between drinking lots of the brew and coronary heart disease.
Data on more than 120,000 participants in two U.S. studies that followed people for as long as two decades found no link between heart disease and a daily intake of six or more cups of coffee. In fact, the risk was the same as for people who had less than one cup of coffee or tea a month.
A couple of caveats go with the overall findings, the researchers say.
"We can't exclude the association between coffee consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in small groups of people," says Rob van Dam, a research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the report.
For instance, a recent study suggests that one form of a gene responsible for metabolism of caffeine could make coffee harmful to people who carry the gene, van Dam says, "although that finding requires confirmation."
And the new findings don't apply to heavy consumption of unfiltered coffee, such as the French-press kind, he says.
(The New York Times News Service) -- If you're reading this over your morning cup of coffee, you can sip away with the comforting thought that a new study found no relationship between drinking lots of the brew and coronary heart disease.
Data on more than 120,000 participants in two U.S. studies that followed people for as long as two decades found no link between heart disease and a daily intake of six or more cups of coffee. In fact, the risk was the same as for people who had less than one cup of coffee or tea a month.
A couple of caveats go with the overall findings, the researchers say.
"We can't exclude the association between coffee consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in small groups of people," says Rob van Dam, a research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a co-author of the report.
For instance, a recent study suggests that one form of a gene responsible for metabolism of caffeine could make coffee harmful to people who carry the gene, van Dam says, "although that finding requires confirmation."
And the new findings don't apply to heavy consumption of unfiltered coffee, such as the French-press kind, he says.
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