Assessment of the Effect of Green tea Consumption on Fibrinogen Among Adult Healthy Sudanese Volunteers

Abstract

Background Camellia tea is a product made up from leaf and bud of a sinis plant. People around the world drink green tea as an everyday drink and as a therapeutic aid in Many illnesses. Fibrinogen is the main constituent that form at the blood clot. Elevated fibrinogen level raises heart disease risk by (60 to 90%). This study aimed to draw attention to importance of healthy green tea and explore the effect of green tea on fibrinogen level. This can be achieved through experimental study. Materials and Methods In this study venous blood sample 9:1 in trisodium citrate 3.2% were collected from healthy adult controls (n=30) (13male and 17female) randomly selected. The fibrinogen level was determined using the STA Compact Max. Result There was statistical significant difference (P.value <0.05) in the fibrinogen level before and after consumption of green tea (before 3.31±0.45) (after 2.29±0.41). Moreover there was statistically significante in levels of fibrinogen between males and females. The mean of fibrinogen level in male before and after were (3.12±0.49)(2.13+ 0.44) respectively and in female were (3.46±0.35) (2.41±0.34) respectively. This study didn’t obtained any statistically significance in fibrinogen levels between different age group. Conclusion This study concludes that drinking two cups of green tea per day reduce the level of fibrinogen. Also the present study obtained statistically significant difference between male and female with regard to fibrinogen level. However didn’t revealed significant differences regard to age group.