Tea may ward off cancer.The more tea women drink, the lower their risk of ovarian cancer ovarian cancer Malignant tumour of the ovaries. Risk factors include early age of first menstruation (before age 12), late onset of menopause (after age 52), absence of pregnancy, presence of specific genetic mutations, use of fertility drugs, and personal history of breast may be, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. findings from a population-based study in Sweden. (1) In a large cohort of women followed for an average of 15 years, those who drank two or more cups of tea daily had a 46% lower risk of ovarian cancer than those who seldom or never drank tea. And for every cup of tea a woman drank per day, her risk of ovarian cancer declined by 18%. The researchers acknowledge that the relatively high level of health consciousness found among women in the cohort who drank two or more cups a day may help explain the findings, but they add that the robustness of the associations in age-adjusted analyses argues against such confounding confounding when the effects of two, or more, processes on results cannot be separated, the results are said to be confounded, a cause of bias in disease studies. confounding factor . (1.) Larsson SC and Wolk A, Tea consumption and ovarian cancer risk in a population-based cohort, Archives of Internal Medicine The Archives of Internal Medicine is a bi-monthly international peer-reviewed professional medical journal published by the American Medical Association. Archives of Internal Medicine , 2005, 165(22):2683-2686. |
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