Fig. 1

Estimates of participants’ cumulative survival time of total participants from the age of 50 and beyond, considering various levels of tea consumption. (A) Life expectancy according to tea consumption levels. (B) Years of life gained from‘<1 cup/day’, ‘1 to < 3 cups/day’, ‘3 to < 5 cups/day’ and ‘≥5 cups/day’ versus non-drinking group from 50 to 100 years of age. (C) Estimated proportion of life gain from ‘3 to < 5 cups/day’ of tea consumption versus non-drinking attributable to reduced death from cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) and other causes. All results were estimated with weighting and adjustment for sex (male and female), race and ethnicity (White, Black, Hispanic and other), age, education (< high school, high school and > high school), marital status (married, unmarried and other), family income (poverty, moderate, and rich), smoking status (never, former, and now), dietary intake (coffee, alcohol, fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, protein foods, and energy intake) and medical insurance (covered and not covered)