Deans' stroke musings: Coffee consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation in the Physicians’ Health Study

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.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Coffee consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation in the Physicians’ Health Study

This is the type of writing that is totally useless for stroke survivors. And if we had a great stroke association instead of the fucking failures of stroke associations we have we would have all research translated into understandable language. So we could train our doctors in the latest research.

Coffee consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation in the Physicians’ Health Study

Journal of the American Heart Association — Bodar V, et al. | August 06, 2019

Among men who participated in the Physicians’ Health Study (N = 18,960; average age: 66.1 years), researchers prospectively examined the link between coffee consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). They calculated the HRs and 95% CIs for AF by using Cox proportional hazard models. Participants were followed-up for a mean duration of 9 years, during which time the occurrence of 2,098 new cases of AF was reported. HRs (95% CI) of AF were 1.0 (reference), 0.85 (0.71-1.02), 1.07 (0.88-1.30), 0.93 (0.74-1.17), 0.85 (0.74-0.98), 0.86 (0.76-0.97), and 0.96 (0.80-1.14) for coffee consumption of rarely/never, ≤ 1 cup/week, 2-4 cups/week, 5-6 cups/week, 1 cup/day, 2-3 cups/day, and ≥ 4 cups/day, respectively. The investigators adjusted for age, smoking, alcohol intake, and exercise (P for nonlinear trend = 0.01). In a secondary analysis the multivariable adjusted HR (95% CI) of AF per standard deviation (149 mg) change in caffeine intake was 0.97 (0.92-1.02). Overall, coffee consumption of 1-3 cups daily was associated with a lower risk of AF among men.