NCT01945970

Effect of Black Tea on Vascular Function

Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Crossover Study to Assess the Effect of Black Tea on Flow-Mediated Dilation in Healthy, Non-tea Drinking Males

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Unilever R&D · Industry
• Sex: Male
• Age: 40 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Epidemiological studies indicate that regular consumption of three cups of black tea per day reduces the risk of stroke or myocardial infarction. In a number of previous nutrition intervention studies tea has been shown to improve vascular function as assessed by Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD).

Detailed description

The current study tests a specific Black tea extract against a placebo in population that has previously show to be sensitive to the effect of black tea on Flow Mediated dilation. A tea extract that has previously been shown to improve FMD is included as the positive control.

Conditions

• Vascular Function

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Black tea extract	Black tea extract
OTHER	Positive control	Positive control
OTHER	Placebo	Placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2013-09-19
• Last updated: 2017-03-22
• Results posted: 2017-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy