Sidra Khalid, Sana Arif, Hafsa Kamran, Shaista Jabeen, Maria Aslam.
Comparative efficacy of local and branded green tea on patients suffering from hyperlipidemia.
Asian J Allied Health Sci Jan ;1(01):37-44.

Green tea is well known to reduce body weight, and blood lipid profile in cardiovascular patients suffering from hyperlipidemia, because of antioxidative properties of polyphenols present in green tea. Objective: To inspect and compare the consequence of commonly available green tea in market and branded (Lipton) green tea on cholesterol, low density lipoproteins (LDL), high density lipoproteins (HDL) and triglycerides of cardiovascular patients suffering from dyslipidemia. Methods: A total of 60 patients were randomly selected from Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore for experimental study. Data was collected through pre-tested questionnaires and from the lab records of lipid profile investigations performed before, during and after the intervention by the hospital lab. SPSS Version 17 was used for data analysis. Assessment of means between groups was executed through one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Results: After the intervention was carried out on lipid profile of cardiovascular patients suffering from hyperlipidemia, analysis of variance of: cholesterol, HDL, LDL and triglycerides to find out the comparative efficacy of local and branded green tea on cardiovascular patients, was found to be significant (P<0.01). Analysis of variance of body weight of cardiac patients suffering from hyperlipidemia was alsofound to be significant (P<0.01). Conclusions: Green tea has ability to lower the level of blood lipid profile including serum triglycerides, serum cholesterol, low density lipoproteins (LDL), while increase the level of high density lipoproteins (HDL) effectively. It is also effective in lowering the weight. So it can act as hypo-lipidimic and weight-lowering agent and it improves the cardiovascular function.

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