Chemicals in Coffee Appear to Combat Blood Vessel Aging, Researchers Say
(WebMD) — Older people with high blood pressure who drink one to two cups of coffee a day have more elastic blood vessels than people who drink less or more, Greek researchers report.
As we age, our blood vessels get stiffer, and that’s thought to increase the risk of high blood pressure. The new findings suggest moderate coffee drinking may counteract this process.
Previous research has shown conflicting results as to whether coffee is good or bad for the heart.
The new study involved 485 men and women, aged 65 to 100, who live on a small island called Ikaria, in the Aegean Sea, where more than a third of people live to celebrate their 90th birthday.
“We were aiming to evaluate the secrets of the long-livers of Ikaria,” says study head Christina Chrysohoou, BSc, of the University of Athens.
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Good to know this. But shall appreciate more scientific confirnation from Experts in this discipline. Thanks.
Caffein is a tabu in alternative system of medicines all over and in fact tea is considered to be beneficial than coffee as has been established; a group of some 400 persons of a single race can be misleading for any statistical evaluation unless proved in hetrogenic races from all over.
Agree with raghavan.s.v.
But what this once again ‘proves’ is that people are searching for another, a ‘natural’, fix to combat high blood pressure. As long as this happens it may imply that prescription medication has so many side effects that any ‘alternative’ that comes along is welcome, i.e. if prescription medication would work, there would not be a ‘need’ to find alternative blood pressure lowering quick fixes. Even if coffee drinking would work, for the majority of patients the blood pressure may not be lowered enough to warrant drinking coffee.