Coffee drinkers ‘at higher risk of developing kidney disease’

 By Gwyn Wright via SWNS

Coffee drinkers are more likely to develop kidney disease, warns a new study.

Scientists have found metabolites in the blood associated with coffee consumption that could raise the risk of the life-threatening condition.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United State examined 372 blood metabolites in almost 5,000 people.

They found one coffee-related metabolite may help our kidneys become healthier.

But two other metabolites they found, which are also associated with smoking, were linked to a higher risk of kidney disease.

Dr. Casey Rebholz, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School said: “A large body of scientific evidence has suggested that consuming a large amount of coffee is consistent with a healthy diet.

“We were able to identify one metabolite that supports this theory. There were two other metabolites associated with coffee that surprisingly were associated with a higher risk of incident chronic kidney disease.

“These compounds were also associated with cigarette smoking, which may in part explain why these compounds were associated with a higher risk of kidney disease.”

The researchers did not account for people’s self-reported coffee consumption and said further study was needed.

The findings were published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.