an investigation of soy intake and mammographic characteristics in hawaii调查在夏威夷大豆摄入量和乳腺的特点.pdfVIP

Available online /content/3/2/134 Primary research An investigation of soy intake and mammographic characteristics in Hawaii Gertraud Maskarinec and Lixin Meng Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Correspondence: Gertraud Maskarinec, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, 1236 Lauhala Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. Tel: +1 808 586 3078; fax: +1 808 586 2984 e-mail: gertraud@ Received: 9 August 2000 Breast Cancer Res 2001, 3:134–141 Revisions requested: 19 September 2000 This article may contain supplementary data which can only be found Revisions received: 13 October 2000 online at /content/3/2/134 Accepted: 6 November 2000 © 2001 Maskarinec and Meng, licensee BioMed Central Ltd Published: 5 January 2001 (Print ISSN 1465-5411; Online ISSN 1465-542X) Abstract This cross-sectional investigation in Hawaii explored the relation between soy foods and mammographic characteristics using two food frequency questionnaires and a computer-assisted density assessment method. Japanese and Chinese women reported significantly greater soy food intake than Caucasian women. Whereas soy intake and the size of the dense areas were not related, soy intake and percent mammographic densities were positively associated. The size of the entire breast and the nondense area (ie the fatty part of the breast) were inversely related to soy intake. These results suggest the hypothesis that soy foods by themselves or