多喝咖啡並不會導致高血壓?
Good news for those of us who need a little caffeine to get through the daily grind – drinking several cups of coffee a day may not increase your blood pressure after all.
對那些像我們一樣需要一點咖啡因才能完成日常工作的人的一個好消息——每天喝幾杯咖啡並不會使血壓升高。
Some scientists have suggested coffee could cause high blood pressure, or hypertension, which has been linked to heart disease, strokes and shorter life expectancy.
一些科學家表明咖啡會引起高血壓或過度緊張，這關係到心臟病，中風和壽命更短。
But an extensive U.S. report has concluded that people who have several cups a day fare no worse than those who drink coffee less frequently.
但是美國一個全面的報道總結出，每天喝幾杯咖啡的人不會比較少喝咖啡的人過得更糟。
Researchers pooled data from six studies, covering 170,000 people, which asked participants how much coffee they drank each day and then followed them for up to 33 years.
研究人員收集6個包括17萬人的研究數據，通過詢問他們每天喝多少咖啡，並跟蹤他們33年的情況。
According to their analysis in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, about one in five developed high blood pressure – with the chance of diagnosis no different for people who said they drank more than five cups of a coffee a day compared with those who drank very little.
根據《美國臨牀營養學雜誌》分析，約1/5的人患有高血壓——結果顯示，每天喝超過5杯咖啡的人跟不喝咖啡的人相患病機率是一樣的。
But one of the research team, Liwei Chen, from the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans, said that the relationship between coffee-drinking and blood pressure is complicated by the possibility that it does not work the same way for everyone.
但是，新奧爾良路易斯安那州立大學公共衛生學院的另一組研究人員稱，喝咖啡跟高血壓的關係是複雜的，可能是因爲它對每個人所起的作用不同。
(恆星英語學習網原創編譯,轉載請註明出處!)‘People with a different genetic background may react to coffee differently,’ she said.
“不同遺傳背景的人對咖啡的反應也不同。”她說。
‘For some people maybe it’s safe to drink a lot of coffee, but not for other people.’
“對於有些人來說，喝很多咖啡都沒事，但是對其他人就不行了。”
Blood pressure expert Lawrence Krakoff, of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, said: ‘I don’t think of coffee as a risk factor for high blood pressure.’
紐約西奈山醫學中心高血壓方面的專家Lawrence Krakoff說：“我不認爲咖啡是患上高血壓的一個風險因素。”
However, he stopped short of giving people free rein to guzzle gallons, adding: ‘If people are drinking 12 cups a day and are not sleeping, I assume that is an important issue.’
然而，他絕不會讓人們完全自由地狂喝大量咖啡，還說：“如果人們每天喝12杯咖啡後睡不着，我覺得那將是個大問題。”
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