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ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2016

Association of green tea consumption with mortality from all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer in a Chinese cohort of 165,000 adult men.

Junxiu Liu, Shiwei Liu, Haiming Zhou, Timothy Hanson, Ling Yang, Zhengming Chen, Maigeng Zhou

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Article in European journal of epidemiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  4. Green tea (Camellia sinensis) for the prevention of cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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Junxiu LiuDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Shiwei LiuNational Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Haiming ZhouDivision of Statistics, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, USA.
Timothy HansonDepartment of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Ling YangClinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3-7LF, UK.
Zhengming ChenClinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3-7LF, UK.
Maigeng ZhouNational Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China. maigengzhou@126.com.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 212946
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tea is the most ancient and popular beverage in the world, and its beneficial health effects has attracted tremendous attention worldwide. However, the prospective evidence relating green tea consumption to total and cause-specific mortality is still limited and inconclusive. We recruited 164,681 male participants free of pre-existing disease during 1990-1991, with green tea consumption and other covariates assessed by the standardized questionnaire and mortality follow up continued until 2006 (mean 11 years; total person-years: 1,961,791). Cox regression analyses were used to quantify the associations of green tea consumption with all-cause (n = 32,700), CVD (n = 11,839) and cancer (n = 7002) mortality, adjusting simultaneously for potential confounders. At baseline, 18 % reported regular consumption of green tea. Compared with non-green tea drinkers, regular drinkers had significantly lower all-cause mortality, with adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) being 0.94 (95 % CI 0.89, 0.99) for ≤5 g/day, 0.95 (0.91, 0.99) for 5-10 g/day and 0.89 (0.85, 0.93) for >10 g/day. For CVD mortality, the corresponding HRs were 0.93 (0.85, 1.01) 0.91 (0.85, 0.98) and 0.86 (0.79, 0.93), respectively, while for cancer they were 0.86 (0.78, 0.98), 0.92 (0.83, 1.00) and 0.79 (0.71, 0.88), respectively. The patterns of these associations varied by smoking, alcohol drinking and locality. This large prospective study shows that regular green tea consumption is associated with significantly reduced risk of death from all-cause, CVD and cancer among Chinese adults.

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MortalityTeaAdultAlcohol DrinkingCardiovascular DiseasesChinaConfounding Factors, EpidemiologicDietHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsProportional Hazards ModelsProspective StudiesRiskSmokingTeaAlcohol drinkingCancerCardiovascular diseaseGreen tea consumptionMortalitySmoking

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