Decaf Coffee Questions Percolate, Study: Decaf Drinkers May Have Increased Heart Risks - CBS News (click for more):
"Caffeinated coffee may have an undeserved bad rap, suggests a new study that shows the decaffeinated variety may have harmful heart effects.

The study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association, showed that people who drank decaf had higher levels of a protein linked to heart disease risk compared with those who drank caffeinated coffee or no coffee.

But the differences were fairly small and there's probably no health threat from drinking a cup or two of any type of coffee a day, says researcher H. Robert Superko, MD, chairman of preventive cardiology at the Fuqua Heart Center in Atlanta.

The Coffee Debate

The research is the latest entry into a long line of scientific studies looking at whether coffee drinking can lead to heart disease, some of which suggested links and others of which concluded the brew causes no harm..."