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posted by takyon on Sunday December 17 2017, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the small-study dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @06:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @06:26PM (#611516)

    dunno. the problem seems to be sugar for glaucoma. at least for some.
    sugar is the ev1l of the world. (not really).
    getting your vitamin A is what keeps your eyes going, so it is said, so eat your liver .. oh and wear sunglasses.
    absorbing photon volumes seems to deplete your vitamin stash.
    however, sugar is goood for the brain; you dont need to to chew too much AND you get lots of energy in a small package.
    so if you think you have seen it all and don't mind being a bit blind, then by all means, go high on sugar and compile all those in-sights into usable data : )
    also, and this is a maybe a wrong personal observation, with sugar being a nice white crystalline substance, any contamination that will give you diarrhea is
    much more spotable then a bad worm-egg-virus-bacteria flavored street stall curry : )