Elevated plasma and urinary concentrations of green tea catechins associated with improved plasma lipid profile in healthy Japanese women
Takechi et al.
The finding, in our words
In healthy women, first-void urinary and plasma green tea catechins correlated weakly to moderately with lipid profiles and glycated haemoglobin. This supports the utility of non-invasive first-void urine collection for evaluating dietary and cardiometabolic biomarkers in decentralized studies.
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