Recent research has revealed that one cup of coffee a day could reduce risks to develop diabetes and inflammation in adults.
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A few studies have found that the association between coffee and diabetes risk is stronger for women and non-smokers, as said by Dongfeng Zhang of the department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics at Qingdao University Medical College in China, who also was not part of the new study.
Now that this study has proven the benefits of coffee when it comes to preventing chronic hyperglycemia, researchers are now urging some other academic enthusiasts to make a more extensive study on the exact physiological process that caffeine gives our body.
The habitual drinkers of coffee were 54 percent less likely to get diabetes than the nondrinkers of coffee.
Coffee drinkers in a long-term study were about half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those who didn’t drink coffee, and researchers think an inflammation-lowering effect of the beverage might be the key. Apparently, what was researched in the past belongs to the past, as the results were not as significant as the ones exposed here. They utilized an interesting approach on the matter, as they have randomly selected approximately 1,300 subjects, so they would have a homogenous group and went to study their coffee drinking patterns, rather than selecting them strictly based on this factor.
Drinking less than 1.5 cups of coffee a day was termed “casual” coffee drinking while more than 1.5 cups per day was “habitual” drinking. Among the participants, there were 816 casual drinkers, 385 habitual drinkers and 239 non-coffee drinkers.
After determining the groups of participants, researchers had their blood samples in order to evaluate levels of protein markers of inflammation. The tests also measured antioxidant levels, which indicate the body’s ability to neutralize cell-damaging “free radicals”.
In the second phase of the study, that was performed 10 years after the initial phase, the patients were reassessed and it became apparent that 191 of them had developed diabetes along that time.
The researchers noted that the levels of serum amyloid may explain the link between coffee and diabetes. They were given questionnaires to complete regarding their diet which included questions about how often they drank coffee.
The authors suggest future researchers to study on various aspects that can affect the likelihood of developing diabetes like high blood pressure, family history, and smoking. This limits any confirmation that coffee consumption prevents diabetes.
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