We present results for 1256 women aged 65-76 y, of whom
1134 (90.3%) were tea drinkers and 122 (9.7%) were non-tea
drinkers. The characteristics of the tea drinkers and the non-tea
drinkers are shown in Table 1. The 2 groups were similar with
respect to mean age and BMI. A slightly higher percentage of
the non-tea drinkers were current smokers and current users of
hormone replacement therapy, although the differences were
not significant.