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Habitual tea consumption has a minimal effect on fracture risk.
2003 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Habitual tea consumption has a minimal effect on fracture risk.
"The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate associations of habitual drinking of regular tea with bone mineral density and fracture risk. Study participants were a multiethnic postmenopausal cohort (n = 91,465) from the nationwide Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. These women were recruited in the United States and aged 50-79 years at the time of enrollment (1994-1998)," researchers in the United States report.
"The average follow-up time was 4.1 years. Habitual consumption of regular tea was assessed with a structured questionnaire at baseline. Clinical fractures during the follow-up were reported in questionnaires, and hip fractures were further confirmed by reviewing medical records. Bone mineral density measurements were conducted among a subgroup of women (n = 4,979) at three Women's Health Initiative bone mineral density centers using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry," wrote Z. Chen and colleagues, University of Arizona, Mel & Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health.
"Multivariate analyses suggested a positive trend of increased total body bone mineral density with tea drinking (p
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