IS COFFEE A PROPHYLACTIVE TO DEMENTIA?
The answer is delicious yes. Today is International Coffee Day and the tasty way to celebrate the day is by sharing this good news with all our readers.
A new study suggests that older women who drink coffee with two to three cups daily may be at lower risk of having dementia and other cognitive diseases.
Researches have concluded that caffeine a mild stimulant present in coffee has many cognitive benefits.
A study regarding the relationship between coffee drinking habits and improvement of long term memory has been published in The Journal Of Nature Neuroscience in 2014.
The new findings of caffeine's benefit in reducing the risk of getting dementia by women are published in The Journals Of Gerontology, Series-A. Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.
About 6467 women aged 65 years and older were selected for Women's Health Initiative Memory Study(WHMS) which was funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The lead author of this study Prof.Ira Driscoll, Ph.D., noted that 'the unique about this study is that we had an unprecedented opportunity to examine the relationship between caffeine intake and dementia incidence in a large and well defined, prospectively studied cohort of women'.
Driscoll et al examined the participants of the program study by their caffeine intake as determined through self-consumption of coffee tea and cola.
The researches found that women who consume a minimum of 64mgs of coffee (1 8-ounce cup) are more prone to get dementia than those who consume more than 260mgs of caffeine(2 to 3,8-ounce cups of coffee or 5 to 6, 8-ounce cups of black tea).
The team found this beneficiary factor overriding even after accounting the possible confounding factors such as age, race, body mass index, smoking status, alcohol intake depression hypertension, sleep quality, and history of cardiovascular diseases.
The authors of the study say that they are unable to establish a direct association between caffeine intake and dementia risk reduction nor are they able to generalize the findings to men.
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