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Drinking coffee is associated with a lower risk of heart failure according to an analysis of decades of data from three health studies including 21,361 participants, according to a New York Times report.
The analysis used machine learning to find patterns.
Dr. David P. Kao, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and the study’s senior author, and his colleagues found 204 variables associated with heart failure risk. The strongest factors included marital status, body mass index, smoking, cholesterol, blood pressure and the consumption of various foods.
Coffee drinking was associated in all three studies more strongly than other dietary factors with a lower long-term risk for heart failure.
Consuming one cup a day or less had no effect, while two cups a day indicated a 31% reduced risk, and three cups or more per day reduced risk by 29%.
