Bone Fracture
Soy Consumption May Reduce Risk of Fracture in Postmenopausal Women
Date Posted: 9/13/2005
Newswise- Postmenopausal women who consumed high daily levels of soy protein had reduced risk of bone fracture, according to a study in the September 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Arichives journals.
Xianglan Zhang, M.D. from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and colleagues examined the relationship between soy food consumption and bone fractures in 24,403 postmenopausal women.
The researchers found that soy consumption may reduce the risk of fracture in postmenopausal women, especially among those in the early years following menopause. The median (middle value) daily intakes of soy protein and soy isoflavones were 8.5 grams and 38 micrograms, respectively.
In this prospective study of postmenopausal women, we found that soy food consumption was associated with a significantly lower risk of fracture particularly among women in the early years following menopause.
(Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165: 1890 O 1895.
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