Tea to prevent stroke, "son preference"! A prospective study on chronic disease in China

According to China's stroke report, China is a big stroke countryOne person in our country has a stroke every 12 seconds, and one person dies every 21 secondsStroke is the first cause of death in our countryrecently, a new analysis of China's chronic disease prospective study shows that drinking tea is a good habit to help prevent stroke, especially green tea, but only in men have a preventive effectstudies have found that the risk of stroke decreases as the frequency of tea increasesdrinking tea every day reduced the risk of stroke by 8% compared to those who never drank teain addition, compared with those who do not drink tea, tea drinking older, tea tea "grab" much more people stroke risk is also reducedhowever, drinking tea to prevent stroke "son preference."daily tea drinkers, men had a significantly lower risk of stroke as the amount of tea they drank increased, but not for womenTea is "biased" towards men, even after taking into account men's smoking and drinkingin the case of different types of tea saffron, green tea and oolong tea, green tea significantly reduced the overall risk of stroke, as well as the risk of cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, but other teas did not find this associationFigure 1 Applying the effects of green and non-green tea on stroke risktea polyphenols in
tea tea help regulate blood lipids, reduce blood sugar, reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, and catechins in tea polyphenols may also increase blood nitric oxide levels and improve endothelial cell functionAll of this can help reduce the risk of strokeresearchers speculate that green is better than other teas, which may be related to the processing of tea, which is more antioxidantIn addition, the study had fewer people using black and oolong tea, or had an impact on the resultsthe latest analysis of the China Chronic Disease Prospective Study included more than 480,000 adults aged 35 to 74, 40.9 percent of whom were men, who participated in the study without ischemic heart disease or strokeDuring the follow-up period, a total of 387,000 strokes occurred26.3 per cent of people drink tea almost every day, while 41.1 per cent of men and women and 15.9 per cent drink tea dailyThe majority of people in all kinds of tea drink green tea, accounting for 86.7%Among the overall tea drinkers, men drank tea longer and consumed more tea than womensources:Am J Clin Nutr, 2020, 111 (1): 197-206Wang Yide, Liu Jianmin, Yang Wei, etc.
author: Yan Xi Source: china circulation magazine