You might think caffeinated coffee would increase your blood pressure. Not so, according to a new study in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Coffee drinking was not at all associated with a greater risk of high blood pressure. If anything, coffee drinking was associated with a preventive effect in that women who drank more coffee were less likely to have high blood pressure, Dr. Wolfgang Winkelmayer of the Brigham and Women's Hospital said.

Winkelmayer was part of the 12-year study of about 150,000 women. The researchers, from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and other institutions, expected to find that caffeinated coffee increased the risk of high blood pressure.

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