Headline : Researchers review findings and clinical messages from the Women’s Health Initiative 30 years after launch

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Data from influential study underscore the importance of personalized and shared decision-making to support the health of postmenopausal women.

A new review in JAMA highlights key findings and clinical messages from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the largest women’s health study in the United States. The WHI is supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and was created to study factors that may reduce risks for cardiovascular disease, cancer, hip fractures, and other conditions in postmenopausal women. More than 68,000 women enrolled in clinical trials between 1993 and 1998 and were followed for up to 20 years.

After reviewing these long-term data, the researchers explain the primary findings:

Hormone therapy and menopause. The WHI study found that estrogen or a combination of estrogen and progestin, two types of hormone replacement therapies, had varying outcomes with chronic conditions, and the evidence does not support the use of these therapies to reduce risks for chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and dementia. The study was not designed to assess the effects of FDA-approved hormone therapies for treating menopausal symptoms, the benefits of which had been established before the WHI study began.

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