Monday, March 1, 2010

ASA: Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Stroke Risk - in Meeting Coverage, ASA from MedPage Today

By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Drinking just one cup of coffee a day -- either regular or decaffeinated -- was associated with a 30% reduced risk of stroke, a large, prospective study showed.

Greater consumption did not heighten the apparent protective effect, according to Yangmei Li, MPhil, of the University of Cambridge in England.

The results, gathered over a mean 12-year follow-up, were not affected by adjusting for several known stroke risk factors, Li reported at the American Stroke Association meeting.
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