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Drinking a few cups of coffee each day can improve heart and overall health—but does the timing of your caffeine habit impact its benefits?

It certainly may, according to research published today in the European Heart Journal.

The new study—the first examine the timing of coffee consumption on heart health—found that people who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease compared to all-day coffee drinkers and non-coffee drinkers.

Morning coffee drinkers also had a lower overall mortality risk compared to the others in the study.

“Our findings indicate that it’s not just whether you drink coffee or how much you drink, but the time of day when you drink coffee that’s important,” senior study author Lu Qi, MD, PhD, HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and professor at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University said in a news release.

“We don’t typically give advice about timing in our dietary

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