Coffee Drinkers Are Less Likely to Have Liver Disease

Suara.com – Drink coffee caffeinated, either ground or instant or decaffeinated was associated with a reduced risk heart disease chronic. This is stated in a study published in an open access journal BMC Public Health.

Launching from Medical Xpress, researchers at the Universities of Southampton and Edinburgh, UK found that drinking coffee any type is associated with a reduced risk of developing and dying from the disease heart chronic.

The authors studied UK Biobank data on 495,585 participants with coffee consumption. They were followed for an average of 10.7 years to monitor who developed chronic liver disease and related liver conditions.

Of all participants included in the study, 78 percent (384,818) consumed ground coffee or instant or decaffeinated coffee, while 22 percent (109,767) drank no coffee of any kind. During the study period, there were 3,600 cases of chronic liver disease, including 301 deaths.

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In addition, there were 5,439 cases of chronic liver disease or steatosis (fatty accumulation in the liver also known as fatty liver disease), and 184 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer.

Compared to non-coffee drinkers, coffee drinkers had a 21 percent reduced risk of chronic liver disease, a 20 percent reduced risk of chronic or fatty liver disease, and a 49 percent reduced risk of death from chronic liver disease.

The maximum benefit was seen in the group that drank ground coffee, which contains high levels of Kahweol and cafestol which have been shown to be beneficial against chronic liver disease in animals. Instant coffee, which has low levels of kahweol and cafestol, has also been linked to a reduced risk of chronic liver disease.

However, the study authors caution that the study did not account for any changes in the amount or type of coffee they consumed over the 10.7-year study period.

In addition, participants were predominantly white and from a higher socioeconomic background, so these findings may be difficult to generalize to other countries and populations.

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The authors suggest that future research could examine the association between coffee and liver disease with tighter control over the amount of coffee consumed.

They also proposed validating their findings in a more diverse group of participants.

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