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.

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