Two studies, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, were looking into coffee and longevity of life, and both found there to be a relatively clear link between the two, shortlist.com has reported.
The first study was a survey of more than 520,000 people across 10 European countries, and the results showed that drinking coffee could ‘significantly’ lower a person’s risk of mortality.
And the second study was a survey of 185,000 mostly non-white people – African-Americans, Native Americans, Hawaiians, Japanese-Americans, and Latinos – which discovered that the effects of coffee on longevity of life were apparent across all races.
People who drink two to four cups of coffee a day have an 18% lower risk of death, the study showed. Veronica Wendy Setiawan, an associate professor of preventative medicine at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, said the findings were consistent with previous studies that had focused mostly on white populations.
