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Coffee Improves Memory in Older Women
The finding is based on a study conducted by researchers at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, in Montpellier, France, who were led by Karen Ritchie, PhD.
The study involved 7,000 people whose cognitive abilities and caffeine consumption were evaluated over four years.
The researchers found that women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee (or the equivalent in tea) per day had less decline over time on tests of memory than women who drank one cup or less of coffee or tea per day.
These results remained the same even after the researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect memory abilities, such as age, education, disability, depression, high blood pressure, medications, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic illnesses.
Moreover, the benefits increased with age coffee drinkers being 30 percent less likely to have memory decline at age 65 and rising to 70 percent less likely over age 80. Caffeine consumers did not seem to have lower rates of dementia.
Ritchie said researchers arent sure why caffeine didnt show the same result in men. Women may be more sensitive to the effects of caffeine. Their bodies may react differently to the stimulant, or they may metabolize caffeine, she said.
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