Taiwan confirmed that the medical profession: tea may reduce the incidence of hypertension

Taiwan's doctors recent study found that drinking tea could reduce the occurrence of hypertension. Drank 120 ml of green tea or oolong tea over last more than one year, the risk of occurrence of hypertension than those who do not drink tea reduced over 40%.

Taiwan University Hospital Professor Chih-Jen Chang pointed out that the study did except that tea may prevent hypertension, but also to work out how much tea will be effective.

The University Hospital of the study involving more than 1,500 cases. These people in the whole of the former do not know that they have the history of hypertension, such exclusions for the Antihypertensive and tea were cases; While some may interfere with the blood pressure values, such as the intake of fruits and vegetables, salt, obesity, is also out of control.

In this study, the tea is more biased negative interference factors, such as fruits and vegetables they eat more fat, more salt intake, the relative risk of hypertension relatively high; But the actual analysis made even more negative interference factors, tea or hypertension than non-tea risk is lower.

The study is divided into three groups were compared. According to statistical analysis found that 120 ml per day over tea, less than 600 ml of this group, the risk of hypertension in tea this group than the low 46%; While more than 600 milliliters of tea daily group, the risk of a lower 65%.

In addition, the study also found that tea a year and over 10 years, little difference in effect. That is as long as a year and tea continues, the protection of both blood pressure effect. The research subjects to drink green tea and oolong tea mainly black tea drink only a few.