Soy and coronary heart disease prevention

Posted by Chantel M. Contributed by US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

In the study of "Dietary soy-derived isoflavone phytoestrogens. Could they have a role in coronary heart disease prevention?" by Tikkanen MJ, Adlercreutz H., posted in US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, researchers found that , lipophilic phytoestrogen derivatives could be incorporated into LDLs, increasing their oxidation resistance and antiproliferative efficacy ex vivo, both of which are, in theory, antiatherogenic effects