Experiment 676212
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Camellia sinensis (THEACEAE) |
| Citation | BROWN,MD:. (1999). GREEN TEA (CAMELLIA SINENSIS) EXTRACT AND ITS POSSIBLE ROLE IN THE PREVENTION OF CANCER.. 4(5) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | IN A COHORT STUDY OF A JAPANESE POPULATION, RESEARCHERS SURVEYED 8.522 INDIVIDUALS OVER 40 YEARS OF AGE ON THEIR LIVING HABITS, INCLUDING DAILY CONDUMPTION OF GREEN TEA. DURING THE NING YEARS OF FOLLOW-UP (71,248.5 PERSON YEARS), 384 CASES OF CANCER (IN ALL SITES) WERE IDENTIFIED. RESULTS FOUND A NEGATIVE ASSOCAITION BETWEEN GREEN TEA CONSUMPTION AND CANCER CINCIDENCE, ESPECIALLY AMONG FEMALES DRINKING MORE THAN 10 CUPS PER DAY. THE AGE-STANDARIDIZED AVERAGE ANNUAL INCIDENCE RATE WAS SIGINIFICANTLY LOWER AMONG FEMALES WHO CONSUMED LARGE AMOUNTS OF GREEN TEA. RELATIVE RISK (RR) OF CANCER INCIDENCE WAS ALSO LOWER AMONG BOTH FEMALES (RR=0.57, 95% CI = 0.33-0.98) AND MALES (RR=0.69, 95% CI=0.39-1.21) IN GROUPS WITH THE HIGHEST CONSUMPTION, ALTHOUGH THR PREVENTIVE EFFECTS DID NO ACHIEVE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE AMONG MALES, WVEN WHEN STRATIFIED BY SMOKING AND ADJUSTED FOR ALCOHOL AND DIETARY VARIABLES. |
| Number | 11 |
| Qualitative result | EQUIVOCAL |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | INFUSION |
| Gender | GIVEN TO BOTH SEXES |