This is definitely a great news for heavy coffee drinkers like me:

According to Harvard researchers, long-term heavy coffee drinking is not related to increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).

Previous studies have linked coffee and/or caffeine to increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease but also to reduced risk of certain diseases, like that of the liver and diabetes.

Continually, coffee has gained a lot of research interest as it is one of the world's largest traded commodities.

The new prospective cohort study, published on-line in the journal Circulation (doi:10.1161/ circulationaha.105.598664), reports that both coffee and caffeine consumption may not be linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), conditions are the cause of 20 per cent of deaths in the US and 17 per cent of deaths in Europe.

The researchers used data from the 44,005 men of the Health Professionals Follow-up study, started in 1986, and the 84,488 women in the Nurses' Health Study, started in 1976, to investigate the link between coffee consumption and the risk of CHD.

Of course, heart disease is not due to tons of coffee alone but something else. Read more at NutraIngredients.