植物雌激素对心血管疾病作用的研究进展

Research progress on the role of phytoestrogen in cardiovascular disease

女性绝经期后雌激素水平下降使心血管疾病的发生率逐渐增高,研究人员曾用雌激素替代疗法来缓解这一现象,但临床资料表明其产生的副作用,如乳腺癌、子宫内膜癌的发病率却随之增加。因此,人们积极寻找一种既能保护心血管功能又无副作用的化合物。植物雌激素因具有拟雌激素样作用且没有明显增加乳腺癌、子宫内膜癌的发病率这一优势,备受研究者的关注。明确植物雌激素对心血管疾病的作用机制,可为预防及治疗女性绝经后心血管疾病提供新思路。本文就近几年来,植物雌激素生物学特性及对心血管疾病作用的研究总结进行综述。

Studies show that cardiovascular disease has a higher incidence rate in postmenopausal women with the decreasing for the level of estrogen. So that researchers take actions of estrogen replacement therapy to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Preclinical data also support the fact that make the side-effect elevated, it including breast cancer, endometrial cancer. Therefore, people search a kind of compound positively that have protective effect in heart and not have side-effect. The study found that phytoestrogens have estrogen-like efficiency and not have evident side-effect. So scientists pay a lots of attention into it. In order to clear the molecular mechanisms about the protective effects of phytoestrogens on cardiovascular disease, that can provide new ideas for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease. In recent years, founds from different studies that make an essay about the role of phytoestrogens and its molecular mechanisms on cardiovascular disease.