Can I drink coffee if I have a heart attack?

Heart disease is a very destructive disease in life. It can cause serious consequences to people's health and threaten the patient's life safety at any time. Patients with heart disease must pay attention to many things, otherwise it will cause the condition to worsen or directly affect their life safety. Among the many precautions, we should pay attention to the impact of diet. For example, can you drink coffee if you have heart disease?

1. Moderate coffee drinking can protect the heart, improve left ventricular contractile function and coronary blood flow, play a role in lowering and controlling blood pressure, and is helpful in preventing hypertension. People who drank 2-3 cups of coffee a day had the best protection against heart failure, with an 11% lower risk of heart failure than those who did not drink coffee.

2. As long as the daily caffeine intake is kept within 400 mg (equivalent to 3-4 cups of coffee), it will not cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

3. Caffeine has the function of nerve excitation. Many people will experience palpitations, premature beats, and increased heart rate after drinking coffee. This is a normal reaction. However, the longer you drink coffee and the more you drink, the higher your risk of heart disease may be.

4. High concentrations of caffeine can change heart function and increase cholesterol levels in blood vessels. Data shows that drinking more than 4 cups of coffee a day will increase the incidence of heart disease in men by 30% and in women by 60%. For people who already suffer from hypertension and coronary heart disease, drinking coffee can easily cause myocardial ischemia, angina pectoris, etc., and they need to weigh the consequences based on their own situation.

Foods that heart patients should not eat

Avoid drinking too much canned drinks and cold drinks

There are many varieties of canned beverages currently on the market, and many of them are mainly composed of sugar or saccharin, spices, pigments and water, but are often insufficient in nutrition. Children also like to eat cold drinks, but after major surgery, the digestive organs of children are still in the recovery and adjustment stage, and their digestive function is often weak at this time. When too cold food enters the stomach, it will stimulate the contraction of blood vessels in the gastric mucosa and reduce the secretion of gastric juice, affecting the digestion process of food in the gastrointestinal tract; at the same time, it will also weaken the bactericidal ability of the digestive tract and lead to infectious diseases in the gastrointestinal tract.