NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death

parallel_prankster writes "Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death [full paper is paywalled, at the New England Journal of Medicine] overall than others who did not drink coffee, according to a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. These results from a large study of older adults were observed after adjustment for the effects of other risk factors on mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption. They also found that the association between coffee and reduction in risk of death increased with the amount of coffee consumed. Relative to men and women who did not drink coffee, those who consumed three or more cups of coffee per day had approximately a 10 percent lower risk of death. Researchers caution, however, that they can't be sure whether these associations mean that drinking coffee actually makes people live longer."

Risk of death

[SirGarlon]

The risk of death must be lower than the risk of taxes, though, because I pay taxes every year and I haven't died even once.

Headline

[girlintraining]

NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death.

In other news, death is avoidable.

Extrapolating ...

[PPH]

... that studies data, it looks as if I'm never going to die.

Meanwhile, on the West Coast....

[Nidi62]

A statement is released saying that coffee is known in the State of California to cause cancer

I think by now we should deduce

[Anonymous Coward]

I think by now it should be obvious .. California causes cancer.

Re:WTF??

[FreeFire]

It's evident to me that Grandma didn't drink enough coffee.

Re:Risk of death

[Anonymous Coward]

and the risk of death around me increases if I don't get my coffee.

Re:100%

[jd2112]

There was an immortal coffee drinker in the study. There may have been an immortal non-coffee drinker in the study but the coffee drinker chopped his head off.

Including liquid candy bars?

[wcrowe]

I assume they mean people who actually drink real coffee, and not those that drink mocha-frappa-whatever liquid candy bars.

Re:I kinda thought risk of death...

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Okay, I'm going to make a computer and car analogy.

Suppose that on every single story that mentioned RAM in any context, there were guaranteed to be a hundred comments along the lines of "Isn't the Ram a pickup truck?" Some of these comments would be meant as in-jokes, but most would be absolutely serious. The people making the comments (a self-selected group of intelligent, technically minded people who are, supposedly, interested in the world around them) would absolutely refuse to understand, no matter how many times it was explained to them, that the word "ram" has multiple specific meanings, and that only one of those meanings is relevant to the conversation at hand.

Wouldn't you get just a little tired of this?

HAHAHA

[rebelwarlock]

Oh man! It was so funny when those thirty people posted comments about immortality! We need that joke some more!

Re:I kinda thought risk of death...

[AwesomeMcgee]

Where does he put them? Back in the cabinet? Must be when he finishes his breakfast I guess