Coffee-addicts all around will be happy to know that there are actually health benefits of drinking the beverage.
After studying 25,138 people at South Korea’s Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, researchers found that people who drank three to five cups of coffee a day were less likely to develop clogged arteries that could lead to heart attacks, according to The Guardian.
“Our study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that coffee consumption might inversely be associated with cardiovascular disease risk,” the authors stated in the journal, Heart.
For the study, both men and women with an average age of 41, who had no signs of heart disease, reportedly attended a health-screening examination. Researchers reportedly estimated the coronary artery calcium score ratios associated with different levels of coffee consumption compared with no coffee consumption.
Researchers reportedly took into account various factors, including level of education and physical activity, alcohol and cigarette consumption, BMI and family history of heart disease and diet when conducting the research.
The calcium score ratios were reportedly found to be lowest in those who drank between three to five cups of coffee per day, according to the website Quartz. The arteries of the participants who drank between one and three cups of coffee a day reportedly had the next clearest arteries.
Those who had more than five cups of coffee a day reportedly had the highest calcium ratio than those who didn’t drink coffee at all.
Although the recent potential health benefit of coffee may be a groundbreaking discovery, further research may be needed to support the recent findings.
“While this study does highlight a potential link between coffee consumption and lower risk of developing clogged arteries, more research is needed to confirm these findings and understand what the reason is for the association,” Victoria Taylor, the senior dietician of the British Heart Foundation, stated.
She added, “We need to take care when generalizing these results because it is based on the South Korean population, who have different diet and lifestyle habits to people in the U.K.”
