Abstract: Background: Caffeine can cause a short, but dramatic increase in your blood pressure healthy individual people including postmenopausal women, but it’s unclear whether the caffeine can be a hypertension risk factor among postmenopausal women or not.
Objective: The study aims to examine the relationship between coffee consumption and blood pressure and incident hypertension in postmenopausal women
Methodology: Literature was obtained by searching MEDLINE (last 35 years), and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Search terms included caffeine, blood pressure, postmenopausal women. Literature was also obtained from citations in relevant articles.
Conclusion: Over many years of follow-up, coffee drinking is associated with small increases in blood pressure among postmenopausal women, but appears to play a small role in the development of hypertension.
Keywords: blood pressure, caffeinated coffee, caffeine, hypertension, postmenopausal women.
Title: Coffee and Caffeine Consumption and the Risk of Hypertension in Postmenopausal Women
Author: Abeer Mohmmad Aodh, Noura Qadhab Alruwaili, Entsar Owaid Alanazi, Hanan Saleh Alruwaili, Amal Dhabyan Aldhilan, Ebtisaam Mataan Alenezi, Zainab Farhan Alanazi, Maram Awied Alenezi
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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