California: A new study had revealed that tea consumption reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%. The research which had been led by European Society of Cardiology reveals the benefit of tea consumption.
European Society of Cardiology based their finding on the evaluation of 131,401 people aged between 18-95 years who underwent a health check up at the Paros IPC Preventive Medicine Center, between 2001 and 2008.
The previous studies had concluded that tea is world’s second most-consumed beverage and it helps prevent cardiovascular diseases and some types of cancer.
The subjects were followed for 3.5 years, during which 95 deaths from CV and 632 deaths from non-CV cases were reported. The researchers assessed the subjects’ consumption of coffee or tea by a self-administered questionnaire that was further classified into three types mainly ‘none’, ‘1-4’, or more than 4 cups per day.
“If you have to choose between tea or coffee it’s probably better to drink tea. Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. Their effects on cardiovascular (CV) health have been investigated in the past with sometimes divergent results. We investigated the effects of coffee and tea on CV mortality and non-CV mortality in a large French population at low risk of cardiovascular diseases,” said Professor Nicolas Danchin from France.
When it has been compared to those who do not consume tea, tea drinkers had a better CV risk profile than the non-consumers. Nearly 3% of those who do not consume tea were current smokers when compared to 24% of them who drank 1-4 cups per day and 29% of them who drank more than 4 cups.
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