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Camellia sinensisFinding

Camellia sinensis has no detected effect on HDL cholesterol

no difference foundModerate evidenceFindingreplicated ×2

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“No significant change was observed in HDL-C concentrations in healthy participants or in subjects with coronary artery disease supplemented with black tea based on both fixed-effects and random-effects analysis when compared with control participants.”
Quoted verbatim from Effect of black tea consumption on blood cholesterol: a meta-analysis of 15 randomized controlled trials.
This finding among the 93 findings on its endpoint

Camellia sinensis

HDL cholesterol

no difference found

Who
Healthy participants and, separately, subjects with coronary artery disease in pooled randomised trials
Dose studied
Black tea polyphenols 77.5 to 1350 mg/d across trials; trials 3 weeks to 6 months

Moderate evidencePMID 25237889 · 2014

02 · The study

Study
meta-analysis
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderatethis finding
  • limited
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

PloS one
What else it reported2 findings · 0 compounds · 2 endpoints

04 · To cite this finding

This address does not change

https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6ZWCETQSTZMVKNYQKAXCJW1