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Drinking a cup of hot tea at least once a day may be linked to a significantly lower risk of developing the serious eye condition, glaucoma, finds a small study published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
But drinking decaffeinated and caffeinated coffee, decaffeinated tea, iced tea and soft drinks doesn't seem to make any difference to glaucoma risk, the findings show.
[...] After taking account of potentially influential factors, such as diabetes and smoking, hot tea-drinkers were 74 per cent less likely to have glaucoma.
But no such associations were found for coffee -- caffeinated or decaffeinated -- decaffeinated tea, iced tea or soft drinks.
This is an observational study so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and the absolute numbers of those with glaucoma were small. Information on when glaucoma had been diagnosed was also unavailable.
Connie M Wu, Annie M Wu, Victoria L Tseng, Fei Yu, Anne L Coleman. Frequency of a diagnosis of glaucoma in individuals who consume coffee, tea and/or soft drinks. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017; DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-310924
Source: http://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/drinking-hot-tea-every-day-linked-to-lower-glaucoma-risk/
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday December 18 2017, @12:04AM (7 children)
TFS is practically a transcript from this XKCD, substituting beverage flavors for jelly bean flavors.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @12:15AM (3 children)
This is probably why we have a heart attack drug approved only for black people. It didn't pass muster with the FDA until non-blacks were excluded from the statistics, and then... a drug that can be marketed and sold!
Not that there couldn't be something to the tea though. Suppose that a particular bit of DNA increases the chance of glaucoma. It also makes you crave hot caffeinated tea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @12:48AM (1 child)
If you are a Brit, chances are you already have a hot tea daily. Follow the money to whatever large English Tea Company funded the study?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @06:37AM
What kind of British guy drinks Diet Coke, or iced tea, or coffee? A wacky one. A nut job. The normal ones, as you know, they have their hot tea. Glaucoma is a HORRIFIC thing, it's like somebody grabbed your eyeballs and squeezed. Pure torture! Maybe, probably, it can make anybody LOSE HIS MIND. How can anyone go through that without going a little screwy? And it makes a guy go blind. And this blind, crazy guy is going to do the tea ceremony every morning & afternoon? I don't think so, folks.
You do this science in America, I'll tell you what you'll find. The guys who don't drink coffee are sick, or bad guys. And a lot are unemployed LOSERS. They're not sick losers because they don't drink coffee. They don't drink coffee because they're sick losers. While I became very successful in business and in politics, and enjoy MAGNIFICENT health, without ever touching coffee.
This is easy stuff, folks. Sometimes I wonder about the science people. Maybe, probably, you people don't want to hear this, but it's overrated. I think a lot of science is very overrated.
(Score: 2) by TK on Monday December 18 2017, @06:20PM
Interesting if true. Citation needed.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday December 18 2017, @05:28AM (2 children)
I wouldn't be surprised if a korean team were to release a paper saying that kimchi's good for reducing glaucoma risk as soon as they see this paper exists.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday December 18 2017, @06:30AM
Really...I was wondering if maybe the Wu and Yu families were involved in Tea plantations and/or marketing.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @11:25PM
Whether we are from the city or the country, and whether we are black or brown or yellow or white, you've heard it before, we all bleed the same red blood. If we are to make America great again, we must reduce, rather than highlight, issues of race in this country. I want to make race disappear as a factor in government and governance.