Drinking coffee tied to lower risk of dying: New research shows


One’s morning cup of coffee being dubbed a “life line” of sorts may be more than just a cliche or joke because a new study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that those who drink coffee, even with a teaspoon of sugar, may be 30% less likely to die.

“Moderate consumption of unsweetened and sugar-sweetened coffee was associated with lower risk for death,” the researchers concluded.

Over a period of seven years, the study compared those who do not drink coffee with those who consume 1.5 to 4.5 cups of coffee that is unsweetened, artificially sweetened, and sugar-sweetened.

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The researchers showed that people who drank unsweetened coffee were 16-21% less likely to die during the study period, with those drinking about three cups per day having the lowest risk of death when compared with noncoffee drinkers.

The researchers also noted that results between artificially sweetened coffee and mortality rates were less consistent.

Dr. Christina Wee, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, told the New York Times, “It’s huge. There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30 percent.”

In a corresponding editorial, Wee noted that “according to a 2022 estimate, Americans drink 517 million cups of coffee per day, and 66% of Americans surveyed reported drinking coffee within the past day.”

“All bets are off when it comes to matching this with a latte, a Frappuccino, the super mocha whipped whatever,” said Dr. Eric Goldberg, a clinical associate professor of medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. “Moderation is good, … but too much of a good thing isn’t necessarily more of a good thing.”

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The study’s coffee consumption data was collected from the U.K. BioBank, a large medical database with health information from people across Britain.

In the analysis, the researchers considered demographic, lifestyle, and dietary information collected from 171,616 participants between the ages of 37 and 73 over the seven-year period.

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