Mortality among Female Practitioners of Chanoyu
Japanese “Tea-ceremony”
1992 Volume 166 Issue 4 Pages 475-477
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1992 Volume 166 Issue 4 Pages 475-477
SADAKATA, S., FUKAO, A. and HISAMICHI, S. Mortality among Female Practitioners of Chanoyu (Japanese “Tea-ceremony”) Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1992, 166 (4), 475-477-A cohort study aimed to evaluate the effect of drinking green tea on longevity was performed. Three thousand three hundred and eighty female practitioners of chanoyu (Japanese tea-ceremony), living in Tokyo, were followed from 1980 to 1988, and 280 were dead during this period. Standardized mortality ratios were estimated 0.55 when all Japanese women was used as standard population and 0.57 when women living in Tokyo was used, indicating the possibility that green tea is a protective factor for several fatal diseases.
