Coffee and Increased Risk of Cardiac Arrhythmias

• Coffee and cardiac arrhythmias: Up-date review of the literature and clinical studies.

  • 2023-08-31
  • Review
  • Cardiology journal 30(4)
  • • Stanisław Surma
    • Monika Romańczyk
    • Krzysztof J Filipiak
    • Gregory Y H Lip

  • PubMed: 35912715
  • DOI: 10.5603/cj.a2022.0068

  2 Insights on

  • Increased Risk of Cardiac Arrhythmias

  • Low evidence

  Due to the high incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation, the influence of coffee consumption on arrhythmogenesis remains a controversial and clinically important issue. Many mechanisms by which coffee can increase and decrease the risk of arrhythmias have been described.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  moderate amounts