Effect of Soy Nuts on Blood Pressure and Lipid Levels in Hypertensive, Prehypertensive, and Normotensive Postmenopausal Women

Soybean Products Consumption in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

“…Men that consumed soy in their diet presented significant reductions in both diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Furthermore, Welty and colleagues (Welty et al 2007) found that soy nut supplementation significantly reduced systolic and diastolic pressure in all 12 hypertensive women and in 40 of the 48 normotensive women. The order of diets did not affect the response.…”

The role of nutrition and nutraceutical supplements in the treatment of hypertension

“…A similar study with a vegetable drink with sardine protein hydrolysates significantly lowered BP by 8/5 mmHg in 13 wk [118] . Soy protein lowers BP in hypertensive patients in most studies [100,[119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127] . Soy protein intake was significantly and inversely associated with both SBP and DBP in 45694 Chinese women consuming 25 g/d or more of soy protein over 3 years and the association increased with age [119] .…”

“…The SBP reduction was 1.9 to 4.9 mm lower and the DBP 0.9 to 2.2 mmHg lower [119] . However, randomized clinical trials and meta-analysis have shown mixed results on BP with no change in BP to reductions of 7% to 10 % for SBP and DBP [121][122][123][124][125] . The recent meta-analysis of 27 trials found a significant reduction in BP of 2.21/1.44 mmHg [120] .…”

Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to soy isoflavones and protection of DNA, proteins and lipids from oxidative damage (ID 1286, 4245), maintenance of normal blood LDL cholesterol concentrations (ID 1135, 1704a, 3093a), reduction of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause (ID 1654, 1704b, 2140, 3093b, 3154, 3590), maintenance of normal skin tonicity (ID 1704a), contribution to normal hair growth (ID 1704a, 4254), “cardiovascular health” (ID 3587), treatment of prostate c

“…Some human intervention studies used soy nuts (Welty et al, 2007b), soy foods in general (Chiechi et al, 2002;Scheiber et al, 2001), soy meal replacement formula (Allison et al, 2003), soy protein containing isoflavones (Maesta et al, 2007;Sagara et al, 2004;Washburn et al, 1999) or a soy extract, fibre and lecithin supplement (Puska et al, 2002), without controlling either for the protein component, the amount of lecithin contained or the macronutrient composition, which could have an effect on blood cholesterol concentrations. In one study (Takatsuka et al, 2000), the nature of the control diet was not specified.…”