{"id":414,"date":"2011-07-21T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-07-14T04:03:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:03:36","slug":"no-evidence-that-coffee-ups-risk-of-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/21\/no-evidence-that-coffee-ups-risk-of-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"No evidence that coffee ups risk of high blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110422\/cooffee.afp.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GO AHEAD. Have that second cup of coffee &#8211; or maybe even a third.<\/p>\n<p>Despite previous concerns, downing lots of coffee doesn&#8217;t seem to increase the risk of high blood pressure, says a US study.<\/p>\n<p>High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been linked to heart disease, stroke and a shorter life expectancy, and some scientists have suggested that coffee might fuel the problem.<\/p>\n<p>But according to a report in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that pooled data from six previous studies, covering 170,000 people, this did not appear to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The results suggest that habitual coffee consumption of more than 3 cups per day was not associated with an increased risk of hypertension compared with less than one cup per day,&#8217; wrote Liwei Chen, from the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans, who worked on the study.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Chen added that more data would be needed in order to draw a firm conclusion, noting that the report &#8216;is not saying there&#8217;s no risk&#8217; to drinking lots of java.<\/p>\n<p>Photo By AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO AHEAD. Have that second cup of coffee &#8211; or maybe even a third. Despite previous concerns, downing lots of coffee doesn&#8217;t seem to increase the risk of high blood pressure, says a US study. High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been linked to heart disease, stroke and a shorter life expectancy, and some scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}