Researchers said that two cups of coffee a day could cut your chance of developing alcohol-related cirrhosis by 44 percent. Dr. Kennedy told CNN that the team merged the data of these studies and calculated an exact relationship between coffee and cirrhosis risk.
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The review, published in the second March issue of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, looked at studies involving 1,990 cases and more than 432,000 participants.
Researchers recommended the next step be forming studies to get people who have mild to moderate cirrhosis, and people at risk of the disease, to drink more coffee and evaluate the effects.
But after four cups, unfortunately, there might not be a benefit to downing more coffee.
The morning after you drink too many cocktails, do not forget to down extra coffee, too – for your liver’s sake.
More than a million people die from cirrhosis each year worldwide.
And, while the studies accounted for alcohol consumption, not all them accounted for other cirrhosis risk factors like obesity and diabetes, the authors note in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Kennedy and colleagues did a pooled analysis of average coffee consumption across earlier studies to see how much adding two additional cups each day might influence the odds of liver disease. Drinking three to four cups per day has been linked to a reduced risk by 57-65%.
Last year, a study found coffee could protect against heart disease.
“Therefore, it is significant that the risk of developing cirrhosis may be reduced by consumption of coffee, a cheap, ubiquitous and well-tolerated beverage”. There is also signs that filter coffee as opposed to boiled coffee appears to yield better results, something which is yet to be analysed in further detail.
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