What Were The Results Of The Women's Health Initiative Concerning Hormone Therapy?
WHI results in 2002 found that post-menopausal women taking combination (estrogen and progestin) hormone therapy for menopause symptoms had an increased risk for breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, blood clots, and urinary incontinence.
How has the use of menopausal hormone therapy changed since the Women's Health Initiative study?
Instead, the Women's Health Initiative study found that taking estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy — HRT — actually increased a woman's risk of heart disease and breast cancer. The study had a huge effect: Within months the number of women using HRT dropped by almost half.
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What did the Women's Health Initiative accomplish?
The WHI demonstrated that the use of estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy after menopause increased the risk for heart disease, stroke, blood clots, breast cancer, and dementia.
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Why was the Women's Health Initiative stopped early?
One treatment-arm of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study was recently terminated because the overall risks of hormone treatment were considered to outweigh the benefits. The main findings were an increased risk of venous thromboembolism and a decreased risk of osteoporotic fractures with treatment.
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