TEA AND COFFEE CONSUMPTION IN RELATION TO C-REACTIVE PROTEIN INFLAMMATORY MARKER AMONG HEALTHY SUDANESE POPULATION
Eman Abdullah, Rayan Saed, Thoyba Khider, Rayan Adam, Ohood Alnour, Marwa Abuobaida, Rasha Elbushra Abdulhameed*, Abdelbagi Elfadil, Mohamed Mahmoud
Khidr, Kamil Hassan Salih, Arwa Elsir
ABSTRACT
In recent years, clinical and observational studies reported that coffee
and tea consumption were associated with cardiac arrhythmia, heart
rate, serum cholesterol, blood pressure, and consequently
cardiovascular risk (Mesas, et al, 2011). Still, no metabolic study
investigated the effects of both tea and coffee consumption on
inflammatory markers in healthy Sudanese population. Therefore this
study is intended to confirm the relation between inflammation, coffee
and tea consumption, with the outcome being a stronger public health
message. This was a case control study which involved caffeine
consumers of both genders and they were all recruited from different
areas of the Sudanese community. The study included 90 subjects
(aged from 16 to 50 years), of them 60 were caffeine consumers (tea
and/or coffee), and 30 were non caffeine consumer (controls). All
samples were analyzed by Mindray machine to determine C reactive protein level and the
procedure was performed in Al-Ribat Hospital. The results revealed a significant elevation in
the CRP level of caffeine consumer (14.1±13.1), when compared to non-consumers (6.6
±8.3). This study concluded that high consumption of caffeine could increase
proinflammatory marker (CRP) level, which might lead to heart diseases. More studies are much needed to confirm our findings, with the outcome being a stronger public health message.
Keywords: cardiac arrhythmia, heart rate, serum cholesterol, blood pressure, and consequently cardiovascular risk.
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