Possible role of equol status in the effects of isoflavone on bone and fat mass in postmenopausal Japanese women
- 1 September 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Menopause
- Vol. 14 (5), 866-874
- https://doi.org/10.1097/gme.0b013e3180305299
Abstract
Equol is more biologically active than its precursor daidzein, which is the principal isoflavone found in soybean. There are interindividual differences in the ability to produce equol; these may lead to differences in the effects of isoflavone intervention on human health. This study aimed to investigate whether the effects of soy isoflavones on bone and fat mass are related to an individual's equol status. We performed a 1-year double-blind, randomized trial to compare the effects of isoflavone (75 mg of isoflavone conjugates/day) with those of placebo on bone mineral density, fat mass, and serum isoflavone concentrations in early postmenopausal Japanese women who were classified based on their equol-producer phenotype. After 1 year, the isoflavone intervention significantly increased the serum equol concentration in the equol producers but not in the nonproducers. In the isoflavone group, the annualized changes in the bone mineral density of the total hip and intertrochanteric regions were −0.46% and −0.04%, respectively, in the equol producers and −2.28% and −2.61%, respectively, in the nonproducers; these values were significantly different (P Conclusions: Our data suggest that the preventive effects of isoflavones on bone loss and fat accumulation in early postmenopausal women depend on an individual's equol-producing capacity.Keywords
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