Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults (** tl;dr: coffee is awesome)

This may interest people, exploring the role of coffee drinking on all-cause mortality and Cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Large sample, but observational and via 7-day dietary record, with follow-up periods.

Note: Normally we need to be cautious with study methods and limits, but since we’re dealing with coffee – I’ll accept no ill spoken. Coffee defies all known laws of nature and the number 42.

Key findings:

· “coffee drinking timing was associated with all-cause mortality risk and CVD-specific mortality risk independent of the amounts of coffee intake”

· “coffee drinking in the morning may be more strongly associated with lower mortality than coffee drinking later in the day”

· “findings highlight the importance of considering drinking timing in the association between the amounts of coffee intake and health outcomes”

· “The morning-type pattern, rather than the all-day-type pattern, was significantly associated with lower risks of all-cause and cardiovascular disease-specific mortality as compared with non-coffee drinking”

· “Greater coffee intake was significantly associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality in participants with morning-type pattern but not in those with all-day-type pattern”

I found this study on a Youtube health channel I follow (Physionic), and being YT, the comments don’t disappoint. See image 3 for some pretty sound logic: of course coffee timing matters, because if you’re dead it won’t help you 😆 .

Ref: Wang, X., Ma, H., Sun, Q., Li, J., Heianza, Y., Van Dam, R. M., … & Qi, L. (2025). Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults. European Heart Journal, ehae871.