A study that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to emphasise coffee’s importance in reducing Heart Failure (HF) risk is said to hold much promise in explaining pathways connecting dietary choices to the condition.
The study draws on the power of machine learning to rank coffee consumption as important as age, blood pressure, heart rate, and weight in links to HF risk, unintentionally becoming the research focus.
“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” states Dr David Kao, senior study author, assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Colorado.
“Coffee and caffeine are often considered by the general population to be 'bad' for the heart because people associate them with palpitations, high blood pressure, etc. The consistent relationship between increasing caffeine consumption and decreasing heart failure risk turns that assumption on its head.”