Coffee is one of the most popular beverages both men and women enjoy. Like any other beverage with caffeine, coffee is also known for its capacity to energize and keep a person focused for a longtime. For its tantalizing taste and aroma, coffee reappears in peoples’ regular diet charts, multiple times.
Especially, when the work pressure is high, people drink more coffee to keep the feeling of fatigue away. Drinking 4-5 cups of coffee is regular for many people across the world and specifically in the USA. Some like it decaffeinated while some like it without milk and sugar.
No matter how you like your coffee, a recent survey has unleashed that this popular beverage, consumed worldwide impacts the health dimensions in many ways. Surprisingly, the experts found that coffee consumption impacts men and women differently.
Especially for heart diseases, men should mind their coffee consumption habits. According to the experts, coffee can enhance the risk of CHD (Coronary Heart Disease) in men.
On the other hand, women can consider consuming coffee without thinking much about such health hazards as they enjoy natural protection against the growing lipid levels contributed by coffee consumption.
Let us dive deeper into the consequences of coffee consumption beyond a certain level and how it impacts the two genders differently.
According to the American Journal Of cardiology’s recently published meta-analysis, drinking coffee can have a direct connection with higher chances of coronary heart disease. The analysis further emphasized that the risks remain higher for men. On the flip side, drinking coffee can have a completely opposite impact on women’s health. It could potentially reduce the risk of CHD in women.
The study, based on which the experts offered such results included 2.2 million patients who participated in at least one study of the total 32 conducted between 1977 and 2020.
Initially, the researchers found no direct association between drinking coffee and the risk level of CHD. However, when they broke the data gender-wise, the results turned out to be quite astonishing and different for both genders.
Seung-Kwon Myung holds a Ph.D. and works as an MD at South Korea’s National Cancer Center Research Institute. Seung and colleagues wrote in their metal analysis that the subgroup analysis of the data showed a direct and inverse relationship between coffee consumption and CHD risk.
While the risk of CHD increases considerably with more coffee consumption for men, it reduces the risks of CHD in women only by an insignificant amount. Therefore, the impact on coffee consumption varies in terms of nature and intensity for men and women.
Here comes the question that immediately pops up in the mind – why would coffee impact different genders differently? According to the experts, the answer might remain hidden in the working pattern of female sex hormones.
How do Female Sex Hormones Work?
Progesterone and estrogen are the two most dominant female sex hormones. Both these hormones impact the inhibition effects and vessels to regulate the LDL oxidation level. This, in turn, plays a critical role in determining atherosclerotic plaque formation.
The team of experts further added that the consumption of coffee undoubtedly increases the level of lipids in both genders. But, women enjoy natural protection against the impacts of inflated lipid levels which keeps the risk of CHD down.
How Much Coffee Is Good?
However, the team also suggested that the popular notion of consuming decaffeinated coffee might not be of much use as it does not impact the risk of CHD. Additionally, people who consume coffee moderately remain less exposed to the risk of CHD.
In short, drinking coffee to a certain extent can be good for your heart. Eliminating it from your beverage list might not be the solution as researchers found no proof of low CHD risks associated with low coffee consumption.
Additional Findings
Even though the team has enlightened coffee lovers regarding many aspects, the study has failed to capture the relationship between coffee consumption and hypertension.
A meta-analysis done in the year 2011 revealed that drinking up to three cups of coffee per day may cause the risk of hypertension to go up significantly.
On the other hand, a 2017 analysis showed that medium consumption of coffee can higher the risk of hypertension by an insignificant amount of 3%.
The team of researchers finally concluded that the topic needs further studies to find the long-run impacts of coffee consumption on anxiety or hypertension.
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