Coffee May Prolong Lifespan For People With Kidney Disease

1 min read
800px A small cup of coffee

Drinking coffee may help reduce the risk of death for people with chronic kidney disease, suggests a study. Comparing with people that consumed less caffeine, patients that consumed higher levels of caffeine presented a nearly 25% reduction in the risk of death over a median follow-up of 60 months. The possible protective effect of caffeine might be related with effects at vascular level as caffeine is known to promote the release of substances, such as nitric oxide, that improve the function of the vessel, the researchers said.
“Our study showed a protective effect of caffeine consumption among patients with chronic kidney disease. The reduction in mortality was present even after considering other important factors such as age, gender, race, smoking, other diseases, and diet,” said lead author Miguel Bigotte Vieira from the Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte in Portugal.
“These results suggest that advising patients with kidney disease to drink more caffeine may reduce their mortality. This would represent a simple, clinically beneficial, and inexpensive option,” Vieira added.
For the study, described in the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, the team involved data from 4,863 people.
However, the researchers emphasised that this observational study cannot prove that caffeine reduces the risk of death in patients with chronic kidney disease, but only suggests the possibility of such a protective effect.

Discover more from The Kashmir Monitor

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading

Don't Miss

budget

Health, tourism, horticulture: Centre to ramp up J&K finances; likely to increase budget to Rs 1.20L Cr next fiscal

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government has started a process for framing the
Lt Governor visits DH Poonch to enquire about health of civilians who were injured in a road accident 2

Sawjian accident: LG visits DH Poonch to enquire about health of injured persons

POONCH, SEP 14: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha visited District Hospital, Poonch to enquire