Consuming coffee could reduce the risk of suicide in men and women by 50 percent according to recent study by Harvard researchers.
Collecting and reviewing data from three large-scale US studies, a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health compared the suicide risks for adults who consumed two to four caffeinated cups per day with the non-coffee drinkers or those who drank much less coffee per day and people who chose decaf.
The result found that, the suicide risk for those consuming two to four cups of coffee per day was about 50 percent less than the risk for subjects in the other groups, the Huffington Post reported.
The total sample included more than 200,000 participants, who were studied for time spans of at least 16 years.
Though, the relation of caffeinated coffee in reducing the risk of depression has been found earlier also but the team's findings adds a new clue in support to that.
Earlier in 2011, a study conducted by Harvard researchers found that women who drank coffee were shown to have a 15 percent reduced risk of depression as compared to non-coffee drinkers.
The research is published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.
-With inputs from ANI
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