Udupi; Dec 06: A new research claims that just three cups of tea a day will reduce the risk of heart-attack by around 20 pc.
In response to inconsistent epidemiologic studies the analysis was conducted on the relation between consumption of tea and cardiovascular diseases.
Drinking three cups of tea a day can cut the risk of stroke by a fifth.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, undertook a literature review of the consistency and strength of the associations between tea and cardiovascular diseases on the basis of published observational studies and meta-analyses addressing tea or tea flavonoids and cardiovascular disease risk.
They performed a search in 3 databases for meta-analyses and compared them with studies they subsumed.
“We performed an additional search for subsequent studies to determine whether the conclusions were consistent,” researchers said in the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
“Thus, the strength of this evidence supports the hypothesis that tea consumption might lower the risk of stroke,” the researchers concluded.
A wealth of epidemiologic studies have been conducted and summarized in 5 meta-analyses on either tea consumption or flavonoid consumption and cardiovascular disease or the subset of stroke.
