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From: abc@brl-smoke.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: coffee causes heart attacks?
Message-ID: <4726@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 12:15:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 19 12:15:43 1986
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2630@hammer.TEK.COM> andrew@hammer.UUCP writes:

>So now the newspapers report on a study linking heavy coffee drinking
>(five or more cups per day) to a doubled risk of heart attack.
>
>Of course, the newspaper account was non-technical.  Does anyone have a
>more detailed account?

	I was disturbed and a little chagrined by this study, which was
done at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.  According to the press,
all sorts of variables were factored into (out of?) the study except the
most suspect of all:  caffeine.  Any long term coffee drinker knows what
I mean!

	Does anyone know if the study addressed whether caffeine is the
likely culprit?  If not, does this not cast serious doubt on its
credibility?
-- 
Brint Cooper

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