THE INFLUENCE OF COFFEE CONSUMPTION ON INCREASED BLOOD PRESSURE

BACKGROUND : Coffee is a drink that has been popular in indonesian people. Coffee may affect blood pressure because it contains of polyphenol, potassium and caffeine. Polyphenol and potassium is decreases blood pressure, while caffeine is increases blood pressure. Blood pressure is an attempt of the blood to through the blood vessels (the artery). An artery is a blood vessel that carries blood from the cardiac to the whole body. Blood pressure is measured as systolic and diastolic, which is the normally value less of be equal to 120/80 mmHg (the milimeter of mercury) GOAL : To know is there any change in the status of blood pressure after the intervention of a given in this research namely coffee. METHODS : Kind of this research is the observational analytic with the method is cross sectional study, which is done in the coffee shop in the Makassar city. Sample of this research is 96 man, consist of 20-40 years old. The research purposive sampling technique. RESULTS : The result of statistical tests by using test kolmogorov smirnov, the influence of kinds of the coffee on the increased. Blood pressure obtained value of P = 1.000, the influence of the number of coffee on the increase blood pressure obtained value of P = 1.000, and the influence of the frequency of coffee on the increase blood pressure obtained value of P = 1.000 obtained statistically can be concluded that there is no influence of consumption coffee on increased blood pressure, so that Ho accepted and H1 rejected. CONCLUSION : There is no influence of consumption coffee on increased blood pressure. Keywords : Consumption coffee, increase blood pressure