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Finally, some blowback from all that coffee benefits stuff. Turns out it may be so great for the old ticker.

It's odd though that the risk seems to be involving those already predisposed to heart disease and that don't drink coffee regularly, as opposed to regular Java Joes.

Of the 503 patients surveyed, 80 had at least one cup within the hour before the onset of their myocardial infarction: as such, the relative risk of MI in the hour after coffee consumption was 1.49. When patients were stratified according to usual coffee intake, light and occasional coffee drinkers had a relative risk of MI that was almost four times higher than that of heavy coffee drinkers and more than double that of moderate coffee drinkers.



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