Tea Drinking and Its Association with Active Tuberculosis Incidence among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults: The Singapore Chinese Health Study

Experimental studies showed that tea polyphenols may inhibit growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, no prospective epidemiologic study has investigated tea drinking and the risk of active tuberculosis. We investigated this association in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective popu...

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Autores principales: Soh, Avril Zixin, Pan, An, Chee, Cynthia Bin Eng, Wang, Yee-Tang, Yuan, Jian-Min, Koh, Woon-Puay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5490523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28587081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu9060544

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