please help with a good response to this discusion post if you agree or disagree and why ?

Hello Professor and Class,

For this week's discussion I found an article giving an example of a confidence interval on higher coffee consumption associated with lower risk of death. The article written by the European Society of Cardiology did an observational study with almost 20,000 participants that suggested coffee can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people.

The patients were followed for an average of ten years. During the ten-year period, 337 participants died. The researchers found that participants who consumed at least four cups of coffee per day had a 64% lower risk of all-cause mortality than those who never or almost never consumed coffee (95% CI, 0.19-0.70). There was a 22% lower risk of all-cause mortality for each two additional cups of coffee per day (95% CI, 0.66-0.92).

The researchers examined whether sex, age or obedience to a Mediterranean diet had any influence on the association between baseline coffee consumption and mortality. They observed a significant connection between coffee consumption and age. In those who were at least 45 years old, drinking two additional cups of coffee per day was associated with a 30% lower risk of mortality during follow-up (95% CI, 0.58-0.85). The association was not significant among younger participants.

The confidence interval helped to determine a connection with being at least 45 years old and drinking four cups of coffee a day can be a part of a healthy diet and lower the risk of mortality.

Reference

staff, S. X. (2017, August 28).Higher coffee consumption associated with lower risk of death. Medical Xpress - medical research advances and health news. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-higher-coffee-consumption-death.html.