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Abstract

It is well-established that green tea supplementation has antioxidant properties. However, whether green tea supplementation leads to oxidative stress reduction remains unclear, as clinical investigations on this subject have yielded inconsistent outcomes. Consequently, we aimed to determine the effects of green tea supplementation on oxidative stress in adults. A systematic search of English language publications up to 21 August 2021 was carried out in PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and ISI Web of Science, utilizing pertinent keywords. These searches included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the relationship between green tea supplementation, malondialdehyde (MDA), and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in adults. A random-effects model was used to estimate the weighted mean difference (WMD) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Meta-regression and non-linear dose-response analyses were performed to investigate the association between the dosage of green tea (mg/day) and the duration of the intervention (weeks) with pooled effect size. Sixteen RCTs with seventeen arms including 760 participants met the inclusion criteria. Our results indicated that green tea supplementation had significant effects on TAC (weighted mean difference [WMD]: 0.20 mmol/L; 95% CI: 0.09, 0.30, p < 0.001) and significant heterogeneity between studies (I2 = 98.6%, p < 0.001), which was largely related to gender and body mass index (BMI). Subgroup analysis in TAC identified a significant relationship except with low dose supplementation and obese individuals. No relationship between MDA and green tea supplementation was observed in any subgroups; however, meta-regression analysis revealed a linear inverse association between the dosage and significant change in MDA (r = −2117.18, p = 0.017). Our outcomes suggest that green tea supplementation improves TAC and affects MDA based on the dose of the intervention in adults. Future RCTs with longer durations are needed to expand our findings.

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Title
Effect of Green Tea Supplementation on Antioxidant Status in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials
Author
Rasaei, Niloufar 1 ; Asbaghi, Omid 2 ; Samadi, Mahsa 1 ; Setayesh, Leila 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bagheri, Reza 3 ; Gholami, Fatemeh 1 ; Soveid, Neda 1 ; Casazza, Krista 4 ; Wong, Alexei 5 ; Suzuki, Katsuhiko 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Mirzaei, Khadijeh 1 

 Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14176-13151, Iran; [email protected] (N.R.); [email protected] (M.S.); [email protected] (L.S.); [email protected] (F.G.); [email protected] (N.S.) 
 Cancer Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14167-53955, Iran; [email protected] 
 Department of Exercise Physiology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran; [email protected] 
 Marieb College of Health and Human Services, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL 33965, USA; [email protected] 
 Department of Health and Human Performance, Marymount University, Arlington, VA 22207, USA; [email protected] 
 Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa 359-1192, Japan 
First page
1731
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20763921
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2601998356
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.