Another Reason to Drink Green Tea: Lower Incidence of Kidney Stones

In a Chinese population, green tea consumption was linked to 15-20% lower risk of kidney stones:

“During 319 211 and 696 950 person-years of follow up, respectively, 1202 men and 1451 women reported incident stones. Approximately two-thirds of men and one-quarter of women were tea drinkers at baseline, of whom green tea was the primary type consumed (95% in men, 88% in women). Tea drinkers (men: hazard ratio 0.78, 95% confidence interval 0.69-0.88; women: hazard ratio 0.8, 95% confidence interval 0.77-0.98) and specifically green tea drinkers (men: hazard ratio 0.78, 95% confidence interval 0.69-0.88; women: hazard ratio 0.84, 95% confidence interval 0.74-0.95) had lower incident risk than never/former drinkers. Compared with never/former drinkers, a stronger dose-response trend was observed for the amount of dried tea leaf consumed/month by men (hazard ratiohighest category 0.67, 95% confidence interval 0.56-0.80, Ptrend  < 0.001) than by women (hazard ratiohighest category 0.87, 95% confidence interval 0.70-1.08, Ptrend  = 0.041).

CONCLUSIONS:Green tea intake is associated with a lower risk of incident kidney stones, and the benefit is observed more strongly among men.”

Source: Green tea intake and risk of incident kidney stones: Prospective cohort studies in middle-aged and elderly Chinese individuals. – PubMed – NCBI