date:Sep 24, 2012
A review study in PLoS One suggests that drinking green tea or taking green tea extract supplements may help reduce risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
G.J. van Woudenbergh of InterAct Consortium and colleagues found the possible protective effect after meta-analysing data from 340,234 participants who were enrolled in the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study and followed up during 3.99 million person-years during which 12,403 incident type 2 diabetes mellitus were identified.
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