Diet and Reproductive Hormones: A Study of Vegetarian and Nonvegetarian Postmenopausal Women

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DOI: 10.1093/JNCI/67.4.761

关键词: ProlactinEstriolEstrogenObesitySex hormone-binding globulinBreast cancerGlobulinHormoneEndocrinologyMedicineInternal medicine

摘要: In comparison with matched nonvegetarian women, postmenopausal vegetarian women were found to have lower urinary levels of estriol and total estrogens, plasma prolactin levels, higher sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels. These differences not explained by in body weight or obesity. Plasma SHBG highly correlated high-density lipoprotein cholesterol which also vegetarians than nonvegetarians. hormonal may explain the rates endometrial possibly breast cancer that been observed previously women.

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