Coffee Lovers Have Significantly Lower Diabetes Risk

According to a new study, regular drinkers of coffee may very well be at a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

The researchers observed that habitual drinkers who consumed more than 1.5 cups of coffee a day where half as likely to develop the medical disorder over a ten year time period when compared to people who had lesser than 1.5 cups a day.

The scientists point out to the presence of antioxidants in the coffee beans which may help to account for the difference.

When the health officials pulled blood samples habitual drinkers, they found these participants to have lower levels of the inflammatory marker serum amyloid.

Lead researcher Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos of Harokopio University in Athens told Reuters, "The antioxidant components of coffee may be beneficial, but still more research is needed toward this direction."

For the purpose of the study, Panagiotakos and team measured the daily coffee intake of over 1300 people in Athens and their blood samples were also taken to measure for inflammation and oxidative stress.

A decade later, the team did a follow up to find that 13 and 12 percent of men and women had developed diabetes respectively.

During the research, habitual drinkers were found to have 54 percent lower chance of developing the condition even if there were other risk factors such as smoking or family history.