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Tea may cut risk of death
ONE OR two cups of tea a day may reduce the risk of dying after a heart attack, according to new research. A study of 1,900 American heart attack patients found that those who drank the most tea were the least likely to die in the next three or four years. Tea is a good source of flavonoids, an antioxidant that prevents blood clotting and that may stop the hardening of arteries. People who drank at least two cups of tea a day were 44 per cent less likely to die in the years after a heart attack than non-drinkers, the researchers found. Those who drank a couple of cups a day had a 28 per cent lower rate of dying than the non-drinkers, according to The Journal of the American Heart Association. Dr. Kenneth Mukamal, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University, who carried out the study, said: "We found that tea drinkers generally had lower death rates."Flavonoids may have helped some patients avoid further heart attacks,Dr. Mukamal said. Flavonoids have an anti-clotting effect but research still needs to be carried out on whether this happens in the body, he added.
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