15th April, 2008: Tea Consumption May Reduce the Risk of Carotid Plaques in Women
More good news about tea…drinking a few cups of tea a day may reduce the risk of carotid plaques in women. A new study published by Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology set out to examine the relationship between drinking tea and common carotid artery intima-media thickness and carotid plaques. As recently reported by Food Consumer, the researchers concluded the following: “In a large sample of elderly community subjects we showed for the first time that carotid plaques were less frequent with increasing tea consumption in women.”
The researchers looked at data from 6,597 subjects aged 65 or older in the French population of three cities. Carotid plaques were found in 33.7% of women who drank three or more cups a day, 42.5% of those who drank one or two cups a day and 44.0% among women who did not drink tea at all. Interestingly, for women who drank three or more cups of tea a day, this relationship was independent of age, center, major vascular risk factors, education and dietary habits.
First read about this over at Organic Tea blog and wanted to make sure to share it with our followers too…
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