Aug 13, 2024 12:12:00
Working at a desk or having an indoor hobby inevitably means spending more time sitting every day, but a sedentary lifestyle is known to increase the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, dementia, and cancer. A study conducted by a Chinese research team showed that people who drink a lot of coffee have a lower risk of death from a sedentary lifestyle.
Associations of daily sitting time and coffee intake with risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among US adults | BMC Public Health | Full text
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-18515-9
Drinking coffee may reduce risk of death from sitting too much: ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/dring-coffee-may- lower-risk-of-death-from-too-much-sitting
A sedentary lifestyle is a risk factor for various chronic diseases, and previous research has shown that walking and other methods can reduce the risk. However, the relationship between coffee consumption, which is considered to be healthy, and a sedentary lifestyle has not yet been clarified.
A research team from the School of Medicine at Soochow University in China used data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the relationship between coffee consumption and risk of mortality from sedentary lifestyles in adults.
The study used lifestyle responses from 10,639 participants collected between 2007 and 2018, as well as mortality data through December 31, 2019. Of the participants, 945 died during follow-up, 284 of whom died from cardiovascular disease.
The analysis showed that people who sat for 8 hours or more per day had a 1.46 times higher risk of death from any cause and a 1.79 times higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease than those who sat for less than 4 hours per day. This result supports previous studies, but the research team also conducted an analysis taking into account “coffee intake.”
The analysis found that “the increased risk of death due to a sedentary lifestyle was only seen in adults who did not drink coffee. People who sat for more than 6 hours per day and drank coffee had a 1.58-fold lower risk of death from any cause compared with people who sat for more than 6 hours per day and did not drink coffee.”
The study also showed that people in the top quartile of coffee consumption had a lower risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality compared to people who did not drink coffee at all.
While this study alone cannot explain the mechanism by which coffee protects people from the hazards of a sedentary lifestyle, the caffeine in coffee has been shown to reduce the risk of developing diabetes.
Coffee may help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and it also contains antioxidants that improve metabolism and reduce inflammation — factors that may explain the lower risk of death among coffee drinkers.
The research team concluded: “It is noteworthy that the collaborative analysis of this study showed that the association between a sedentary lifestyle and increased mortality was only observed in adults who did not drink coffee, but not in those who consumed coffee. Given that coffee is a complex compound, further research is needed to investigate this miracle compound.”
