Coffee, cola and hypertension

Posted on July 14, 2009
Filed Under Diet & Food, Food & Drink, Hypertension |

Caffeine consumption and risk of hypertension in women

Short-term studies have shown that consumption of caffeine increases blood pressure acutely, but over time there is an attenuation of this effect.

Given the high prevalence or frequency of hypertension, a long-term effect of caffeine consumption on the risk of developing hypertension would be of great importance for public health, due to extensive consumption as caffeinated drinks, although there are currently few studies of this association.

In Brief

This study suggests that, to hypertension, coffee yes, but not caffeinated cola.

To assess whether the consumption of caffeine or caffeinated drinks were associated with the risk of developing hypertension in women, the authors of the paper consumption of caffeine and risk of hypertension in women Two major cohort studies or follow-up studies health nursing I and II with more than 150,000 women followed for 12 years.

During the monitoring period were diagnosed with hypertension nearly 20,000 women in the study and I almost 14,000 in study II. In both cohorts was not observed a linear association between caffeine consumption and the risk of developing hypertension. When studying individual classes of caffeinated beverages, it was noted that habitual coffee consumption was not associated with an increased risk of hypertension. By contrast, consumption of cola beverages was associated with it an increased risk of developing hypertension regardless of whether the drink had sugar or not.

The authors conclude that their work was not found a linear association between caffeine consumption and the occurrence of hypertension. Although habitual coffee consumption was not associated with an increased risk, consumption of cola with sugar or without it, it was associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension. Suggest that further studies are needed to clarify the role of cola beverages in the development of hypertension.

Coffee seems so, but no queues (even if light or no sugar) if you do not want our women to develop hypertension.

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