“The authors noted that coffee is the most-studied source of caffeine, and the observed cardiovascular benefits may be due to other compounds in coffee.”
Frustrating that they never seem to do the work to tease out the difference. Fucking seems like they’d want to know whether it was some other compound or the caffeine. I suppose they get paid the same without the extra work so they don’t bother.
They could have done it in this study by adding a third cohort that got caffeine but not coffee.
I suppose they get paid the same without the extra work so they don’t bother
a more cynical person might wonder if this is one of those studies paid for by “the industry” and that industry might prefer people drink the addictive variety.
Whenever I see a article about ‘cups’ of coffee, I assume it’s just an observation study thing where large groups of people get surveys on their habits and their regular checkups are more thorough and available to the researchers. So the researchers can only tease out so much info without actually running an experiment with controls, like how big a cup is.
I routinely drink that much, but it’s decaf.
Frustrating that they never seem to do the work to tease out the difference. Fucking seems like they’d want to know whether it was some other compound or the caffeine. I suppose they get paid the same without the extra work so they don’t bother.
They could have done it in this study by adding a third cohort that got caffeine but not coffee.
a more cynical person might wonder if this is one of those studies paid for by “the industry” and that industry might prefer people drink the addictive variety.
Whenever I see a article about ‘cups’ of coffee, I assume it’s just an observation study thing where large groups of people get surveys on their habits and their regular checkups are more thorough and available to the researchers. So the researchers can only tease out so much info without actually running an experiment with controls, like how big a cup is.