PLASMA-CONCENTRATIONS OF PHYTO-ESTROGENS IN JAPANESE MEN

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ADLERCREUTZ, H [1 ]
MARKKANEN, H [1 ]
WATANABE, S [1 ]
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[1] NATL CANC CTR, RES INST, DIV EPIDEMIOL, TOKYO 104, JAPAN
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10.1016/0140-6736(93)92188-Y
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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A low mortality from prostatic cancer is found in Japanese men consuming a low-fat diet with high content of soy products, a rich source of isoflavonoids. We therefore assayed four isoflavonoids in plasma of 14 Japanese and 14 Finnish men. The geometric mean plasma total individual isoflavonoid levels were 7 to 110 times higher in the Japanese than in the Finnish men. Genistein, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, occurred in the highest concentration (geometric mean 276 nmol/L). We hypothesise that these high phyto-oestrogen levels may inhibit the growth of prostatic cancer in Japanese men, which may explain the low mortality from prostatic cancer in that country.
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