Moderate coffee consumption can protect against heart attacks and subsequent heart failure.
As with strokes, this is largely due to coffee’s favorable impact on endothelial function. Poor endothelial function increases your risk of heart attack (when the heart gets too little blood to meet its own needs) and heart failure (when the heart can no longer pump out enough blood to meet the body’s needs).
Because coffee helps improve endothelial function, it not only helps protect you from a heart attack to begin with—but can also protect you from dying from cardiovascular disease.