Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again

Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again by google15 on Saturday November 21, 2015 @10:49PM (#10609004)

Fascinating study, and the journal article is free online[0]. It's an observational study, but of a single occupation and large N, with many other factors accounted for[1]. My take is that coffee, like other psychoactive substances, contains powerful chemicals that are likely to have some effect on total mortality. I will stick to my two cups a day.

[0] http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2015/11/10/CIRCULA...

[1] The regression models included calendar time in 2-y intervals as the time scale, and were stratified by age in years. In the multivariable analysis, we further adjusted for body mass index (BMI), physical activity, overall dietary pattern (aHEI), total energy intake, smoking status, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and alcohol consumption, all of which were updated from follow-up questionnaires.

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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again by wobbleblob on Sunday November 22, 2015 @02:34AM (#10609364)

How did they correct for people who reduced their coffee use because of failing health? I mean, have they proven once and for all that drinking coffee is good for you, or just that healthy people drink more coffee?

When you are diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease etc, you tend to get the advice to drink less coffee. Older people start drinking less coffee as their health declines because it makes them jittery.

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