Coffee: the drink that reduces the risk of digestive disease

This drink consumed all over the world would be associated with a reduction in mortality related to digestive diseases, according to two new studies. Decryption.
Still a new health benefit for this famous hot drink! According to two new studies published in the scientific journal Annals of internal medicine and reported by the Medscape website, coffee would have a beneficial effect on digestive system diseases provided it consumes at least two or three cups a day

A reduction in the risk of death from 40% to 59%

The first publication is based on the EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study, orchestrated by the International Cancer Research Center of Lyon. The researchers in charge of this work followed 451 743 participants in 10 European countries for more than 16 years. According to these scientists, consuming at least three cups of coffee per day is associated with a 12% reduction in mortality. And, more precisely, from these three cups daily, the risk of death related to digestive disease drops 59% in men and 40% in women.No adverse effects at less than five cups per dayThe second publication deals with the multiethnic MEC cohort. For this research, scientists followed 185,855 people for 16 years. They observed that the relative risk of mortality decreased from two to three cups per day and that there was association between coffee consumption and decreased mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, stroke , Diabetes and kidney disease. And, according to an editorial published by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University (USA) in the Annals of Internal Medicine, "moderate consumption of coffee, three to five cups a day [...] is not Associated with adverse reactions, and can be part of a healthy diet. " So, a little coffee?