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Coffee: filter based brewing methods healthier than unfiltered

From a large-scale study:

The new study followed over half a million healthy Norwegian men and women between the ages of 20 and 79 over a 20-year period…

Turns out if you’re a male over 60,

“…drinking boiled or pressed unfiltered coffee raised the risk of death…  due to elevated cardiovascular mortality”.

These are methods like espresso, the Moka pot or French press or Turkish coffee or South Indian filter coffee.

As for filtered coffee, it is

“…linked to a 15% reduced risk of death from any cause, a 12% decreased risk of death from cardiovascular disease in men and a 20% lowered risk of death from heart disease in women when compared to drinking no coffee”

These are methods like the aeropress or Chemex or V60.

I especially like that the article quotes this bit:

“The finding that those drinking the filtered beverage did a little better than those not drinking coffee at all could not be explained by any other variable such as age, gender or lifestyle habits. So we think this observation is true” 

As an aeropress person, this pleases me.