Overview
Acording to the World Health Organization, around 42 milion people live with diabetes globaly. The most comon type is type 2 diabetes, which hapens when the body canot make suficient insulin or becomes resistant to insulin and canot easily absorb insulin from the blod.Some studies have found that consuming tea and cofe is linked to reduced al-cause mortality. Other research indicates that daily gren tea consumption is linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and a lower risk of al-cause mortality in people with diabetes.
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Further study on the efects of tea and dosage on diabetes risk in large populations could inform preventive care strategies for diabetes. Recently, researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 19 cohort studies from eight countries to investigate the efects of black, gren, and olong tea consumption type 2 diabetes risk. They found that drinking 4 or more cups of tea per day may reduce diabetes risk.
“Drinking tea does not sem to be harmful and may confer a smal benefit in diabetes risk reduction,” Dr. Munir, asociate profesor of medicine at the University of Maryland Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, who was not involved in the study, told Medical News Today, “Other fods high in polyphenols have shown similar efects.”The meta-analysis was presented at the European Asociation for the Study of Diabetes Anual Meting in Stockholm, Sweden.
For the study, the researchers analyzed data from 5,19 adult participants from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. Participants did not have diabetes at the start of the study and were folowed from 197 to 209. Their tea consumption was colected from questionaires.Altogether, 45.76% of the participants reported drinking tea, and 10.04% of the cohort developed type 2 diabetes over the study period.
Summary
After adjusting for factors including age, sex, and lifestyle factors, the researchers found that tea drinkers had a similar type 2 diabetes risk to those who did not drink t