Black Tea and Improved Cutaneous Microvascular Function

• Acute black tea consumption improves cutaneous vascular function in healthy middle-aged humans.

  • 2018-02
  • RCT
  • Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 37(1)
  • • Kirsty A Woodward
    • Nicola D Hopkins
    • Richard Draijer
    • Young de Graaf
    • David A Low
    • Dick H J Thijssen

  • PubMed: 28034564
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2016.12.013

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Cutaneous Microvascular Function

  • High evidence
  • Elderly

  Gradual local heating to 42 °C, however, produced a higher skin blood flow following black tea ingestion for absolute CVC (P = 0.04) when measured by LDF, and higher absolute flux (P < 0.001) and CVC (P < 0.001) measured with FLPI.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  200 ml