Menopause
Investigators at Wake Forest University, Department of Pathology have published new data on menopause
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 23rd, 2007
A new study, "Bone mass and soy isoflavones in socially housed, premenopausal macaques," is now available. "Soy consumption is associated with a lower incidence of hip fracture in Asian than in Western women, an effect often attributed to estrogen-like compounds (isoflavones) in soy. It is not known whether premenopausal soy exposure initiated in adulthood can increase bone mass and thereby reduce fracture risk," researchers in the United States report.
"We aimed to determine whether a high-isoflavone soy diet influences bone mass in soy-naïve, premenopausal cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Ninety-four skeletally mature females were randomly assigned to...
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