Eating chocolate 2X per week associated with 66% lower risk of cardiac death over 8 years

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Friday, May 11, 2018 10:45 am Email this article

People who had a heart attack who ate chocolate twice or more per week were 66% less likely to have died from heart-related problems over the 8 years following their heart attack compared to people who never ate chocolate according to the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program.

People who ate chocolate up to once a week were 44% less likely to have died from heart-related problems over the 8 years following their heart attack compared to people who never ate chocolate.

People who ate chocolate less than once a month were 27% less likely to have died from heart-related problems over the 8 years following their heart attack compared to people who never ate chocolate.

“Chocolate consumption had a strong inverse association with cardiac mortality,” the authors of the study concluded.

Subjects

Subjects: 1169 non-diabetics who had a heart attack

Reference

Janszky I, Mukamal KJ, Ljung R, Ahnve S, Ahlbom A, and Hallqvist J. Chocolate consumption and mortality following a first acute myocardial infarction: the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program. J Intern Med, 2009 Sep; 266(3): 248-257.

Author’s Contact Info

Dr Imre Janszky
Department of Public Health Sciences
Karolinska Institute
Norrbacka, 6th floor
Karolinska University Hospital
SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Articles on the same subject can be found here:

• Chocolate (cocoa)

• Heart Attack (myocardial infarction)

• Heart Disease