One network news television segment, several newspapers, and numerous online media outlets covered a study suggesting that high coffee consumption may raise the risk for an early death.
ABC World News reported, “The prestigious Mayo Clinic has published a new study suggesting that number” of cups of coffee consumed on a daily and weekly basis “could affect your life.”
USA Today (8/16, Payne, 5.82M) reports that “heavy coffee consumption is associated with a higher death risk in men and women younger than 55,” according to the study [pdf] published online Aug. 15 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers arrived at that conclusion after following 43,000 individuals “ages 20-87 from 1971 to 2002.”
The New York Daily News (8/16, Miller, 3.47M) reports that consumption of “more than 28 cups of coffee a week – about four per day – was linked to a 21% higher mortality rate in men and women of all ages, and a 50% higher mortality rate in people under 55 years old,” the study found. “Younger men who drank about 28 cups of coffee a week had a 56% increased risk of death compared to non-coffee drinkers,” while the risk of dying doubled in younger women.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (8/16, Townsend, 927K) reports that “genetic factors may partly explain why moderate coffee consumption is not as likely to be associated with increased mortality, whereas heavy coffee consumption could lead to increased mortality,” the study authors theorized. What’s more, people “who were the most frequent coffee drinkers...were the ones more likely to smoke and had lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness.”
On its website, CBS News (8/16, Jaslow, 5.42M) explains, “Excessive caffeine intake raises health risks because it” elevates blood pressure and heart rate.
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