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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 12, 1992                   TAG: 9202120257
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BALTIMORE, MD.                                LENGTH: Short

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COFFEE-CHOLESTEROL LINK NO HAZARD, STUDY SAYS

Daily consumption of four cups of coffee may give you the jitters, but a Johns Hopkins University study has concluded that it can't be blamed for raising levels of blood cholesterol to any harmful degree.

The 16-week study, described in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the link was weak; a four-cup-a-day regimen of filtered coffee raised a person's cholesterol only slightly. And the difference was not enough to put the heart in any danger.

- The Baltimore Sun

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