Green Tea Flavonoid Supplementation and Features of Metabolic Syndrome (MeS)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Green tea, rich in flavonoids, has been shown to possess cardiovascular health benefits. This is a preliminary report on a randomized controlled trial investigating whether green tea beverage or extract supplementation improved the cardiovascular risk profile associated with MeS. Age‐ and sex‐matched trios of participants with MeS were randomly assigned to control (4cups water/day), green tea (4 cups/day), or supplement (2 capsules & 4 cups water/day) group for 8 weeks. Fasting blood samples, physical measurements, and 3‐day food records were taken at screening, 4 & 8 weeks. Blood samples were analyzed for lipid and glucose levels using standard clinical chemistry techniques. Dietary data were analyzed for nutritional content using Nutritionist Pro, version 3.2. Body weight decreased in green tea (−1.6 kg average) vs control (+0.1 kg). Diastolic blood pressure decreased in supplement (−4.3mm Hg average) vs control (−0.3 mm Hg). HDL cholesterol increased in supplement (+2.6 mg/dl) vs control. Interestingly, no consistent effects were seen on glucose levels. Energy and nutrient intakes were not significantly different across groups. Thus, green tea beverage or supplements may aid weight loss and raise HDL levels in at risk subjects. Funded by CHES, OSU
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".