The National Institute of Environmental Medicine of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has carried out a study that shows that drinking more than one cup of coffee a day reduces the risk of suffering a stroke between 22 and 25% if those who do not drink are taken into account. This substance.
Susanna Larsson, responsible for the study, affirms that, after taking into account other risk factors, coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of total stroke, cerebral infarction and subarachnoid hemorrhage, according to the Swedish magazine ‘Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association’.
Low or no consumption was associated with an increased risk of stroke in a study of 34,670 women aged 49 to 83 years who were followed for a mean of 10.4 years. Thus, groups of women who reported drinking between one and two cups per day, three or four, or more than five cups showed similar benefits compared to those who drank less than one cup per day.
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- They report that stroke has more to do with dietary factors. The tests did not differentiate between decaffeinated and regular coffee, but the consumption of decaffeinated coffee in the Swedish population is low. Larsson notes that potential pathways by which coffee consumption could reduce stroke risk include weakening subclinical inflammation, reducing oxidative stress, and improving insulin sensitivity.
- “Some women have avoided drinking coffee because they thought it was unhealthy. In fact, there is growing evidence that moderate coffee consumption may lower the risk of some diseases such as diabetes, liver cancer and possibly stroke”, has indicated Susanna Larsson, qualifying its benefits.