Coffee is a staple for people wanting to start their day with a bang. As time goes by, benefits of drinking coffee continue to be found and in a new on-going, long-term study, drinking coffee is linked to having lower chances of heart failure, stroke and coronary heart disease. It also asserts that for every extra cup of coffee that people drink per day, they are further reducing the chances of these conditions from occurring.

The research was presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Anaheim, California. Even though the preliminary research has not been published for peer-review, it is not the first study to claim that coffee drinking benefits the heart.

Out of all the possible links to cardiovascular ailments that the researchers were considering, one stood out after their study. Heart failure, stroke, and coronary heart disease have a lower risk of occurring with coffee consumption. For those who regularly drink coffee, every eight-ounce cup per day lowers the risk of those three cardiovascular risks by as much as seven percent compared to the people who do not drink coffee.

In their study, they have people who are caffeine drinkers who consume one and six cups of coffee a day. The researchers are still unclear if the benefits will continue if they consume more than they regularly do.

Researches involved in the study said that the goal is to determine whether people drinking coffee can be a clinically useful part in assessing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

They reminded everyone that while the study yielded a lot of good things from drinking coffee, their study is just an observation of people's health and coffee consumption over a period of time. Their investigation only determines a link between coffee consumption and not its cause and effect dynamics.