--- title: Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds description: Go ahead and drink some joe canonical: https://time.com/4194950/caffeine-heart-rhythm/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T22:30:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:27:55.255Z article:section: Health og:title: Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds og:description: Go ahead and drink some joe og:url: https://time.com/4194950/caffeine-heart-rhythm/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds twitter:description: Go ahead and drink some joe twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Jan 26, 2016 10:30 PM UTC by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Jan 26, 2016 10:30 PM UTC Drinking coffee, tea or chocolate does not appear to cause heart palpitations, heart fluttering and other out-of-sync heartbeat patterns, researchers reported Tuesday. The report challenges a widely held belief that caffeinated drinks cause irregular heart rhythms that can lead to heart failure or dangerous heart rhythm disorders and is [another vindication for coffee](http://www.today.com/health/heres-another-yes-coffee-good-you-study-t6291) as a safe drink. It might be time for doctors to lighten up on coffee, says Dr. Gregory Marcus, a cardiologist at the University of California San Francisco, who led the study. “Clinical recommendations advising against the regular consumption of caffeinated products”…. [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/caffeine-doesn-t-give-you-heart-palpitations-study-finds-n504741?cid=par-time%5F20160126) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4194950/caffeine-heart-rhythm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4194950/caffeine-heart-rhythm/"},"headline":"Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds","datePublished":"2016-01-26T22:30:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:27:55.255Z","description":"Go ahead and drink some joe","url":"https://time.com/4194950/caffeine-heart-rhythm/","keywords":["Heart Disease","Caffeine","Coffee","heart","heart health","tea"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maggie Fox / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/heart-disease/","name":"Heart Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4194950/caffeine-heart-rhythm/","name":"Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds"}}]}] ```