Coffee Addicts: Stop Worrying About Blood Pressure

New research shows that:

Healthy women who drank upwards of six cups of coffee per day were no more likely than abstainers to develop high blood pressure over the next decade.

Here’s the freaky bit:

Women who drank coffee occasionally or in moderation - reporting anywhere from zero to three cups a day - had a higher risk of developing high blood pressure than the heavy coffee drinkers or the abstainers.

So what about men?

For men, the risk of high blood pressure did not significantly increase or decrease, regardless of how much coffee they drank each day. However, men who abstained did have a lower risk than any coffee drinkers.

Still, the effect was “relatively small”, Dr Cuno Uiterwaal, the study’s lead author, said.

Well thank you Dr Uiterwaal (not sure how you pronounce that).

So how can this be? According to the good doctor “people who drink several cups of coffee every day develop a tolerance to the transient blood-pressure-raising effects of caffeine”.

The research abstract doesn’t mention what sort of coffee of the test subjects were drinking. Presumably it was instant. This study was undertaken in the Netherlands - where - according to my research people consume over 400mg caffeine per day.

So caffeinated fiends - enjoy your coffee regularly - and make sure it’s good and tasty.

by http://www.energyfiend.com/2007/03/coffee-addicts-stop-worrying-about-blood-pressure
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