Study participants were followed for up to 11 years for all-cause mortality and up to seven years for cause-specific mortality; green tea consumption was gauged from questionnaires that also tracked other habits including diet, alcohol and tobacco use, weight and physical activity. In the all-cause phase, 4,209 participants died, while in the causespecific seven-year segment, 892 participants died of CVD and 1,134 of cancer.
The inverse association with CVD mortality was greater than that with all-cause mortality, and the association with all-cause and CVD mortality was stronger in women than in men.Women who drank five or more cups of green tea daily had a 31-percent lower risk of dying from CVD than women who drank less than one cup daily; five cups daily dropped the risk of stroke mortality in women by 62 percent and all-cause mortality by 23 percent. In men, those consuming five or more cups of green tea daily dropped their all-cause mortality rate by 12 percent, CVD death rate by 22-percent and stroke mortality incidence by 42 percent. Hazard ratios of cancer mortality were not significantly different in other consumption groups.
