Soy-isoflavone-enriched foods and inflammatory biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in postmenopausal women : interactions with genotype and equol production
Author
Hall, Wendy L.
Vafeiadou, Katerina
Hallund, Jesper
Bügel, Susanne
Koebnick, Corinna
Reimann, Manja
Ferrari, Marika
Branca, Francesco
Talbot, Duncan
Dadd, Tony
Nilsson, Maria
Dahlman-Wright, Karin
Gustafsson, Jan-Ake
Minihane, Anne-Marie
Williams, Christine M.
Attention
2299/12442
Abstract
Dietary isoflavones are thought to be cardioprotective because of their structural similarity to estrogen. The reduction of concentrations of circulating inflammatory markers by estrogen may be one of the mechanisms by which premenopausal women are protected against cardiovascular disease.