Green and Black Tea Consumption and Risk of Stroke
Author(s) -
Lenore Arab,
Weiqing Liu,
David Elashoff
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.108.538470
Subject(s) - medicine , black tea , stroke (engine) , meta analysis , observational study , green tea , homogeneous , publication bias , randomized controlled trial , demography , random effects model , food science , mechanical engineering , chemistry , physics , sociology , engineering , thermodynamics
Experimental models of stroke provide consistent evidence of smaller stroke volumes in animals ingesting tea components or tea extracts. To assess whether a similar association of black or green tea consumption with reduced risk is evident in human populations, we sought to identify and summarize all human clinical and observational data on tea and stroke.
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