Association of Tea Consumption with Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Anti-Beta-Amyloid Effects of Tea

Neurodegenerative disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is attracting growing concern because of an increasing patient population among the elderly. Tea consumption is considered a natural complementary therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, epidemiological studies on the association betw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Polito, Curt Anthony, Cai, Zhuo-Yu, Shi, Yun-Long, Li, Xu-Min, Yang, Rui, Shi, Meng, Li, Qing-Sheng, Ma, Shi-Cheng, Xiang, Li-Ping, Wang, Kai-Rong, Ye, Jian-Hui, Lu, Jian-Liang, Zheng, Xin-Qiang, Liang, Yue-Rong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29789466
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10050655
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Sumario:Neurodegenerative disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is attracting growing concern because of an increasing patient population among the elderly. Tea consumption is considered a natural complementary therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, epidemiological studies on the association between tea consumption and the reduced risk of AD are reviewed and the anti-amyloid effects of related bioactivities in tea are summarized. Future challenges regarding the role of tea in preventing AD are also discussed.

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