Upping your coffee intake 'doubles the risk of a stroke'

[The Straight Story]

Upping your coffee intake 'doubles the risk of a stroke'

Drinking more coffee than usual could double your risk of a stroke, according to a study.

Light coffee drinkers who normally have no more than one a day are twice as likely to suffer a blood clot on the brain if they increase that by an extra cup or two, it found.

The risk of a potentially fatal stroke was greatest in the hour following consumption. After two hours, the coffee’s effects had worn off and the risk of a stroke passed.

But the danger lies in occasional exposure to relatively higher caffeine levels, the findings in the journal Neurology said – making light coffee drinkers more susceptible.

This could be because coffee-lovers who get through several cups a day become ‘desensitised’ to the effects of caffeine, such as raised blood pressure, stiffening of the arteries and higher norepinephrine levels, a stress hormone that increases heart rate.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1337684/Upping-coffee-intake-doubles-risk-stroke.html#ixzz17rWOT5Fq

[davidinalameda]

1. reading this website can increase your risk as well

just saying

[The Straight Story]

3. Ban the site and coffee - and if you don't agree, get called a libertarian

:rofl:

[davidinalameda]

7. you would be called someone who checks out books?

:D

[John Q. Citizen]

2. stroke or colon cancer, stroke or colon cancer....

[freshwest]

4. Oh, Rats!

I'm going to die sooner than anyone thought.

[Psephos]

5. Cutting your intake triples your risk of getting fired. :) n/t

[Edweird]

6. I don't drink coffee but I take Exedrine daily. Caffeine and apirin (and tylenol).

If two drugs were ever meant to be taken together it's those two.

[IDemo]

8. I don't drink coffee

I inhale it by the gallon.

[madinmaryland]

9. Now I am concerned that someone will exhale their coffee breath on me

and cause me to have a heart attack. I think we should ban the coffee breathers!

I'm sure the libertarians will argue about this.

:P

[The Straight Story]

10. I am sure the un-libertarians will argue about banning coffee

:rofl: ;)

[madinmaryland]

11. No. I just want to ban second hand coffee!

:D

Because of this... :puke:

[The Straight Story]

13. If you want to ban second hand coffee, ban starsucks coffee

:)

[madinmaryland]

14. See. That's why I always buy my coffee from the street vendors.

50 cents for a cup of java and no real aroma!

Now a serious question for you: How dangerous is second hand microwaved popcorn aroma? That shit takes hours to dissipate! I have to go for a cup of coffee when I smell that shit.

[The Straight Story]

15. Well, According to scientists

it might be real dangerous or not :)

Either way, coffee is not as dangerous as this video:

:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2Zf9tlg2Y

[madinmaryland]

16. The popcorn aroma denyer scientists?

:P

[hlthe2b]

12. I wonder how much confounding from existing high blood pressure

and related risk factors they were able to control for. Being a habitual caffeine drinker I will continue doing so. Of course those of us who have migraines already are at higher risk. Not the worst way to go out as long as it is a single catastrophic event, I guess.

[demosincebirth]

17. I've read just the opposite. Don't know where, but I read it. Also,

drinking a gallon of coffee a day isn't good for you, either.

[On the Road]

18. So in Other Words,

You're safer if you routinely drink more coffee, since your body becomes desensitized?

[frazzled]

19. Oh my, so that's why I see so many people dropping dead in the streets

Just an hour after they had their second cup at Starbucks. I wondered what was going on.