Drinking more coffee a day is linked to a lower risk of liver damage caused by excessive alcohol consumption, experts have found....

[Queen Esther]

Drinking more coffee a day is linked to a lower  risk  of  liver damage  caused by excessive alcohol consumption, experts have found. Drinking two cups a day is linked to a 44 per cent lower risk of liver cirrhosis, while four cups is associated with a  65%  lower risk of the potentially  fatal condition:

Four cups of coffee a day 'counteracts the risk of liver damage linked to drinking excessive alcohol by 65% 

    Two cups of coffee a day lowers risk of liver cirrhosis by 44%, experts say.
    But three cups is linked to a 56% lower risk, and four cups a 65% lower risk.
    Cirrhosis is potentially fatal and is caused by drinking excessive alcohol.
    Experts say, people shouldn't use the findings as an excuse to drink more frothy,  sugary lattes topped with whipped cream.
They don't know exactly, why coffee is beneficial to the liver.

Combined, the studies included 1,990 patients with cirrhosis.

In eight of the nine studies analyzed, increasing coffee consumption by two cups a day was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of cirrhosis.

In all but one study, the risk of cirrhosis continued to decline as daily cups of coffee climbed.

Compared to no coffee consumption, researchers estimated one cup a day was tied to a 22 per cent lower risk of cirrhosis.

Cirrhosis kills more than one million people every year worldwide.

It can be caused by hepatitis infections, excessive alcohol consumption, immune disorders, and fatty liver disease, which is tied to obesity and diabetes.

Dr Kennedy and colleagues did a pooled analysis of average coffee consumption across earlier studies to see how much adding two additional cups each day might influence the odds of liver disease.

Drinking four coffees a day could slash the risk of deadly liver damage by 65 per cent, scientists have revealed.

In particular, it can help with the effects of overindulging in food and alcohol, they say.

A review of nine existing studies, taking in more than 430,000 people, found even two coffees each day was linked to a 44 per cent lower chance of developing liver cirrhosis.

Dr Oliver Kennedy of Southampton University, said: 'Cirrhosis is potentially fatal and there is no cure as such.

'Therefore, it is significant that the risk of developing cirrhosis may be reduced by consumption of coffee, a cheap, ubiquitous and well-tolerated beverage.'

 

( Maybe,  its  better  drinking  less  alcohol  and  less  coffee ! )  ;o)