Drinking Coffee Decrease Risk of Stroke in Women

The results of this study will certainly make the joy of women who like to drink coffee.Research conducted in Sweden showed that women who drink coffee every day, it has a 22-25 percent lower risk of stroke compared with women who rarely drank coffee or even none at all.
"Coffee drinkers should rejoice," said Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., as quoted by AP.
"Coffee is often said to be potentially bad for your heart. Yet there is research that is really for sure tell the coffee is bad," he added. "If you drink coffee now, you may do good things and you probably do not do something harmful."
But Hayes and other doctors also said the study does not prove that coffee lowered the risk of stroke. Research shows that coffee drinkers tend to have lower risk of stroke.
"This type of epidemiological research is very interesting but they do not prove cause," said Dr. David S. Seres, medical director of nutrition at Columbia University 's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
The findings were published on Thursday (10 / 3) online at the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Scientists who have studied the coffee for years, trying to determine the risks and benefits of coffee.
Researchers Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, led by Susanna Larsson, said that previous studies on coffee consumption and stroke have conflicting findings. "There has been no consistent results coming out of the coffee study," said Dr. Cathy Sila, a stroke neurologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
For the observational study, researchers included 34,670 Swedish women aged 49-83 years, for about 10 years. The women were asked how much coffee they drank at the beginning of the study. The researchers also examined hospital records to find out how much these women who later suffered a stroke.
There are a total of 1680 women who had a stroke, including 205 in those who drank less than a cup of coffee or none at all. "You do not need to drink too much. One or two cups a day is enough," said Larsson.
It said, those who want to reduce the likelihood of stroke should focus on proven ways to reduce the risk of stroke, such as not smoking, always maintaining blood pressure, and maintain a healthy weight.