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Menopausal hormone therapy trends before versus after 2002: impact of the Women's Health Initiative Study Results
- Source :
- Menopause (New York, N.Y.), vol 26, iss 6
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2018.
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Abstract
- ObjectiveTo better understand how to educate patients and providers about study findings relevant to treatment guidelines, we assessed pre- versus post-Women's Health Initiative (WHI) differences in menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) initiation and continuation and their correlates, and in women's reasons for initiation and discontinuation.MethodsWe analyzed survey data from up to 14 approximately annual visits over 17 years (1996-2013) from 3,018 participants in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, a prospective cohort study. We used logistic regression to compare pre- versus post-WHI associations of covariates with MHT initiation and continuation, and to compare pre- versus post-WHI reasons for initiation and continuation.ResultsMHT initiation dropped from 8.6% pre-WHI to 2.8% post-WHI (P
- Subjects :
- Adult
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
MEDLINE
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Medical and Health Sciences
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Prospective Studies
Women's Health Initiative
Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine
Prospective cohort study
Hormone therapy
Vasomotor symptoms
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
business.industry
Estrogen Replacement Therapy
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Estrogen
United States
Menopause
Logistic Models
Multicenter study
Hot Flashes
Patient Compliance
Women's Health
Female
Menopausal hormone therapy
business
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15300374 and 10723714
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Menopause
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7d9e4d5aa73d1564c87bad24e354b86a