MPSC State Service 2021 · CSAT · Question 62 of 73

Read the following argument carefully and select the most appropriate option that if true, indicates that their decision is not aimed at decreasing team member՚s risk of heart disease. A team of researchers studying effect of drinking coffee have found that persons drinking more than four cups of coffee have a risk of heart disease 2.5 times than the average after correcting it for age and smoking habits. It is important to note that the members of this team declared that they have started limiting their own daily coffee intake to two cups as a result of above finding.

Logical Reasoning

1. AIt is well established fact that the stress is major causal factor related to heart disease but it is not clear whether this team has collected information about variations in coffee consumption are directly related to the variations in stress levels.Correct
2. BSubsequent studies have shown that non-smokers consume coffee at about one-third the rates of heavy smokers.
3. CSubsequent studies have shown that heavy coffee consumption causes an elevation in blood-cholesterol level, an immediate indicator of increased risk of heart disease.
4. DTheir own study found that for persons drinking three or more cups of coffee daily, the additional risk of heart disease increased with each extra daily cup.