Drinking green tea to prevent artery explosion: Polyphenol intake reduces abdominal aneurysm expansion in rats
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 05:01
in Biology & Nature
Green tea could prevent a deadly condition in the body's main artery. A team has found that abdominal aortic aneurysm -- a condition in which the main artery becomes overstretched and bloated -- developed less frequently in rats that drank green tea polyphenol, a major component of green tea.