Comparative Efcacy of Local and Branded Green Tea on Patients Suffering From Hyperlipidemia

Green tea is well known to reduce body weight, and blood lipid prole 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 cardiovas cular pati ent s suff e ring 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 prole 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 prole of cardiovascular patients suffering from hyperlipidemia, analysis of variance of: cholesterol, HDL, LDL and triglycerides to nd out the comparative efcacy of local and branded green tea on cardiovascular patients, was found to be signicant (P<0.01). Analysis of variance of body weight of cardiac patients suffering from hyperlipidemia was also found to be signicant (P<0.01). Conclusions: Green tea has ability to lower the level of blood lipid prole 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. Key words: Green tea, High density lipoproteins (HDL), Low density lipoproteins (LDL), Triglycerides, Cholesterol.