Deans' stroke musings: Coffee consumption after myocardial infarction and risk of cardiovascular mortality: A prospective analysis in the Alpha Omega Cohort

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Coffee consumption after myocardial infarction and risk of cardiovascular mortality: A prospective analysis in the Alpha Omega Cohort

Now we just need to know about coffee post-stroke. I however have already made up my mind. Coffee as much as possible and as often as possible. But since I have no medical training, don't listen to me. You can have your doctor summarize the pros and cons of coffee in these 142 posts on coffee.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/medical-news-article/2017/08/25/coffee-myocardial-infarction-patients-cardiovascular-disease/7383175/?

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

van Dongen LH, et al. – This prospective investigation assessed the link between coffee consumption (caffeinated and decaffeinated) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality, and all–cause mortality, respectively, in patients with a previous experience of myocardial infarction (MI). Researchers concluded drinking coffee, either caffeinated or decaffeinated, may lower the risk of CVD and IHD mortality in patients with a prior MI.

Methods

This study included 4365 Dutch patients from the Alpha Omega Cohort who were aged 60–80 y (21% female) and had experienced an MI <10 y before study enrollment.
Using a 203-item validated food-frequency questionnaire, dietary data including coffee consumption over the past month was collected, at baseline (2002–2006).
Until 1 January 2013, researchers monitored causes of death.
They obtained HRs for mortality in categories of coffee consumption from multivariable Cox proportional hazard models, adjusting for lifestyle and dietary factors.

Results

Findings revealed that most patients (96%) drank coffee, and the median total coffee intake was 375 mL/d (~3 cups/d).
Data reported that during a median follow-up of 7.1 y, a total of 945 deaths occurred, including 396 CVD-related and 266 IHD-related deaths.
Researchers observed that coffee consumption was inversely associated with CVD mortality, with HRs of 0.69 (95% CI: 0.54, 0.89) for >2–4 cups/d and 0.72 (0.55, 0.95) for >4 cups/d, compared with 0–2 cups/d.
In addition, results highlighted that corresponding HRs were 0.77 (95% CI: 0.57, 1.05) and 0.68 (95% CI: 0.48, 0.95) for IHD mortality and 0.84 (95% CI: 0.71, 1.00) and 0.82 (95% CI: 0.68, 0.98) for all-cause mortality, respectively.
They also found similar associations for decaffeinated coffee and for coffee with additives.