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In addition, the study found that daily coffee consumption helps heart attack survivors by lowering their risk of death after a heart attack and can help prevent heart attacks or strokes in healthy individuals.
If you've survived a stroke or heart attack, adding green tea and coffee to your diet may help protect you from additional events and reduce the risk of death,
A cup of green tea or coffee every day can lower the risk of death for heart attack or stroke survivors and lower the risk of a heart attack in healthy people, study finds.
Researchers from Osaka University in Suita analysed data from more than 46,000 participants aged 40 to 79 who were part of the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study.
Volunteers were asked to fill in questionnaires on lifestyle, medical history and diet - including tea and coffee consumption.
The researchers then followed up with the participants around 20 years later.
When compared with people who rarely drink green tea, those stroke survivors who consume at least seven cups per day had a 62 per cent lower chance of dying.