Coffee filters reduce intake of LDL cholesterol-generating compounds found in the brew and subsequently may lower risk for atherosclerotic heart disease, researchers reported. Workplace brewing ...

That's the equivalent of skipping two ounces of cream in each cup of coffee. Over a five years, this cholesterol-reducing switch could decrease heart disease risk by approximately 13 per cent.

Heart minute volumes and cardiac index rise acutely after coffee consumption, [5] an effect which may in part be due to direct stimulation of cardiac myocytes or central and humoral activation.