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Commentary on: Impact of drinking Chinese green tea on postoperative short outcomes for gastric cancer: a randomized controlled trial

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It is with great interest that we read the study of Liu et al. on the impact of drinking Chinese green tea (GT) on the postoperative outcomes of the subtotal gastrectomy [1].

We would like to draw your attention to some confounders, which might have potentially affected the outcomes.

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Korolkiewicz, P.K., Salloum, A. Commentary on: Impact of drinking Chinese green tea on postoperative short outcomes for gastric cancer: a randomized controlled trial. Eur J Clin Nutr 75, 1679–1680 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-021-00944-z

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