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Show 1 June 22, 1973 Page HILL TOP TIMES heavily more susceptible to in- developing myocardial farction." The investigators rule out caffeine and sugar as tea since explanations, consume similar drinkers quantities of both substances People who drink more than five cups of coffee a day have about twice as great a risk of farction. It is possible that patients wifh previous attacks of the disease could have increased their consumption but no substantial relationships were found between heart attacks and tea. Other possible explanations of coffee as a reaction to the stress of having had a heart attack. However, since no include differences in the patients' diets and past in histories of myocardial information was availably concerning the number of study patients experiencing in- previous fraction, myocaridial this possibility remains to be explored further. separate examination of the data from American and from non-Americ- having an acute mycoardial infarction as people who drink no coffee at all. an of This finding hospitals an !(SE)(MMfl(fi provided no evidence of any consistent association bet- ween tea drinking and heart attack. association between coffee Association between coffee atand acute heart and consumption ingestions tacks emerges from the myocardial infarction was Boston Collaborative Drug present in males and females, in young (up to 59 years old) Surveillance Program (BCD-SPThe program receives andold(60 years or older), and support through a contract in American hospitals and from the National Institute of hospitals. The General Medical Sciences. association held in those and patients with and those Hershel Jick, M.D. without diabetes or hyperDennis Slone, M.D., of the BCDSP at tension. Boston University Medical Although Drs. Jick and on found a the Slone collected data Center, strong intake coffee hot between correlation beverage daily and cigarette before hospital admission of drinking 276 patients with acute smoking, this finding could not ). non-Americ- an myocardial infarction. They compared this group to 1,104 matched control patients with diseases. The inother vestigators asked the patients if they drank zero, one to five, or more than five cups of coffee daily and similarly questioned them about tea consumption. When they controlled the groups for age, sex, and explain the association bet- ween coffee drinking and heart attack, Only a small excess of smokers were in the group that had heart attacks. Drs. Jick and Slone offer several possible explanations for their findings. According to them, "A first possibility is that patients who drink coffee heavily and who develop patients were myocradial infarction have in eight different similar personalities and thus studied hospitals in the United States, cof f ee drinking would only be to related Canada, Israel, and New indrectly infarctions." Zealand), the investigators myocardial found no significant dif- Although they have no in-- " ferences in tea consumption formation for or against this between the two groups. In theory, the investigators fact, while heart attack believe it remains a possible patients consumed more explanation. A second possibility is that coffee than their controls, the trend for tea consumption was "there is a substance or hospital (patients in the opposite direction. Tea consumption was greater in non-U- . but S. hospitals 4 in substances of 100 beef. hamburger made with a quarter-pounThat's all beef ... no f iller. Served with ketchup, mustard, pickles and chopped onion on a toasted sesame seed bun. A d AA coffee other ! than caffeine that makes McDonald's individuals who drink coffee 1973 Closeout Sale! MODELS DAYS ONLY- THURS. FRI.SAT.MON. - Whirlpool 3 point suiomion spin rwvor Qoti out of bo'oo- olwoyt compktot its tp'm. Vi hp. motor " ff Whirlpool work bonds ono KJX fim, ff w Whirlpool 9P rmonant prt ping. Whirlpool EminoW ro- tupf wrgifefor egitotor wostot your clothts tloonor. Supr wcnh orxj $nt? eyelet cfecrts oVy work clothat proiotU dcticato fabric. Whirlpool 9 wparo r'mm cjomyour cloihti ond woihor. r - i' ' nr tlWl c u - . M if I, - & : mini .ItW PAIR OHLY $' FREE BAR-B-- Q 1X14300 I IrrkPrytr WITH PURCHASE OF PAIR TRY A NEW QUARTER POUNDER AT McDONALD'S 1533 South State Street 2403 South Highway 91 5413 South 1900 West Roy HOURS: Tfc.ri. tsj.ojja A frl. 1879 Cait 4800 South Salt Lake City 2310 East 2100 South c-i- MUSIC & HOME FURNISHINGS 379J KUltl Av. rh. I Ml-471- 0 t i r.tw Bountiful 614 East 3300 South Salt Lake City 5375 South State Street rViurrav !." Lake City South 7th East Lake City West 1230 North rrovo Salt 242 Salt 240 r |