PapersPMID:26701796
Long-Term Supplementation of Green Tea Extract Does Not Modify Adiposity or Bone Mineral Density in a Randomized Trial of Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women.
- findings
- 2
- compound
- 1
- endpoints
- 2
- Study, every finding
- RCT · 12 months
- Dose studied, every finding
- GTE containing 843 mg EGCG per day for 12 months
- Population, every finding
- Overweight and obese postmenopausal women aged 50-70 years (BMI 25.0 or above), substudy of the Minnesota Green Tea Trial; change over 12 months
No finding here moved its endpoint.
What did not
How to read these marks →“There were no differences in changes in BMI (-0.13 ± 0.11 compared with -0.05 ± 0.11; P = 0.61), total fat mass (-0.30 ± 0.16 compared with -0.12 ± 0.15 kg; P = 0.40), percentage of body fat (-0.15% ± 0.17% compared with -0.15% ± 0.16%; P = 0.99), or BMD (-0.006 ± 0.002 compared with -0.003 ± 0.002 g/cm(2); P = 0.49) over 12 mo between women taking GTE (n = 61) and those taking a placebo (n = 60).”
- No detected effect on fat mass
very limited
- No detected effect on body mass index
very limitedreplicated ×2
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- Overweight/obese postmenopausal women (BMI >=25.0) in the Minnesota Green Tea Trial substudy; decaffeinated green tea extract containing 843 mg EGCG vs placebo
- Participants
- 121
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 365 days
- Endpoints measured
- 10