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An average of 29 months after going off hormones, women no longer have higher odds of getting heart disease, according to the latest analysis from the federally funded Women's Health Initiative ... That was the year researchers with the Women's Health Initiative dropped a bombshell: The huge research project, which was set up to see if giving hormones to healthy post-menopausal women could prevent heart disease, found that using the pills actually caused a few extra cases of heart disease and... (Chicago Tribune)
Cancer risk lingers in menopausal women after hormone therapy Mar 5, 2008
A previous study by the Women's Health Initiative of U.S. found women taking ombination therapy of estrogen and progestin doubled their risk of blood clots, and raised their risks of stroke and heart attack ... The findings underscore the now-standard recommendation that women who take hormones to relieve hot flashes and other effects of menopause should use the lowest possible dose for the shortest time, said Marcia Stefanick of Stanford University, who chairs the steering committee for the... (Xinhuanet, China)
Study: Post-menopause hormone pills linked to cancer Mar 5, 2008
Patients in the study, the Women's Health Initiative, took the hormone combination, sold under the brand name of Prempro, for an average of 5 years. Two or three years later, their risks of heart attacks, blood clots and strokes had returned to normal, according to the paper, published in today's) Journal of the American Medical Association. (USA Today)
Hormone Therapy Risks Linger On Mar 5, 2008
Researchers with the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) are adding yet another chapter to the continuing (and confusing) story of hormone therapy (HT) taken during and after menopause. In the latest report, appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study doctors report that the health risks of taking the combined hormones estrogen and progestin can linger for up to three years after women stop taking them. (Time.com)
Hormones hurt screen's accuracy Mar 3, 2008
Researchers, led by Dr. Rowan Chlebowski from the Los Angeles Biomedical Institute at UCLA, looked at data pooled from the large Women's Health Initiative trial, which studied more than 16,000 women receiving either hormone therapy or a placebo pill. It has long been known that taking hormone replacement therapy increases a woman's chances of developing breast cancer, but the researchers found that the women taking hormone therapy were also more likely to have abnormal mammograms - even when... (Boston Globe)
Hormone Replacement Therapy Appears To Have No Effect On Risk And Severity Of Rheumatoid Arthritis Mar 2, 2008
A new study using data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trials on hormone replacement therapy found that there were no significant differences in the risk of developing RA or the severity of RA between postmenopausal women who were on hormone replacement therapy and those who took placebos ... Article: "Effects of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy on Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trials," Brian Walitt, Mary Pettinger, Arthur Weinstein,... (Science Daily)
Hormone Therapy Increases Frequency Of Abnormal Mammograms, Breast Biopsies, Study Finds Feb 28, 2008
D., of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor--UCLA Medical Center, and colleagues studied 16,608 post-menopausal women who participated in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial, beginning in 1993 through 1998 ... 14, 2006) Estrogen-alone hormone therapy does not increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to an updated analysis of the breast cancer findings of the Women's Health Initiative. (Science Daily)
Study: Hormone therapy impedes cancer tests Feb 27, 2008
The study was part of the Women's Health Initiative, a huge study of post-menopausal women that was halted in 2002 when women on hormone therapy showed an increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. The heart disease risk was later found to be negligible in younger women who start treatment at the onset of menopause, and the risks of stroke and breast cancer are minimal, researchers said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Hormone Therapy Hinders Breast Cancer Detection Feb 27, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Detecting breast cancer with mammography and biopsy is more difficult in women who use estrogen and progestin hormone therapy, according to an analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial. Doctors "should be aware that breast cancer diagnosis is more difficult in women using combined hormone therapy," lead researcher Dr. Rowan T. Chlebowski told Reuters Health. (MEDLINEplus)
Half A Million Cancer Deaths Have Been Averted Since Death Rate Drop, Report Shows Feb 21, 2008
The decreases may reflect the saturation of mammography utilization and reduction in hormone replacement therapy use that followed the publication of study results from the Women's Health Initiative in 2002. Among males under age 40 years, leukemia is the most common fatal cancer, while lung cancer predominates in men aged 40 years and older. (Science Daily)
Judge to rule if Wyeth must pay $134M to 3 Nevada women Feb 15, 2008
Concern over the drugs surfaced in July 2002, when the federal Women's Health Initiative halted a study after women taking estrogen-progestin pills showed higher rates of heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer and other problems. The study led to new warning labels on the drugs, and doctor groups began urging women to use the lowest dose for the shortest time possible to treat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Estrogen-only pills increase older women's risk for blood clots (1) Feb 12, 2008
While the results were not entirely unexpected, they add to a long list of complications found by the Women's Health Initiative, a large government-sponsored research project that has contradicted long-held assumptions that hormones taken at menopause promote health and postpone age-related ills. In 2002, the WHI linked estrogen-progestin pills to heart attacks and breast cancer and found that they also doubled the risk of blood clots. (Helena Independent Record)
Science has been wrong many times before Jan 25, 2008
The practice did not stop until 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative, a massive (161,809 postmenopausal women), randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial (often referred to as the "gold standard" in medical research), revealed that, contrary to the prevailing scientific consensus, long-term HRT increased the risk of heart attacks, blood clots, stroke and breast cancer. In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of silicone implants, which were widely used for... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
HRT Raises Risk of Lobular Breast Cancer Jan 18, 2008
Previous studies, namely the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), found that combined estrogen and progestin hormone replacement therapy increased the risk of breast cancer. Further studies have indicated that the risk is greater with lobular carcinoma than with ductal carcinoma, but these studies have not been definitive. (U.S. News & World Report)
Combined Hormone Replacement Therapy Increases Risk Of Lobular Breast Cancer Fourfold After Just 3 Years Of Use Jan 16, 2008
While the number of postmenopausal women taking combined HRT long-term has dropped by about half in recent years due to Women's Health Initiative reports of health risks associated with such therapy, such as an increase in heart-disease and breast-cancer risk, a substantial number of women are still taking HRT to manage the symptoms of menopause. "These findings are still of considerable public-health importance considering the estimated 57 million prescriptions for menopausal hormone therapy... (Science Daily)
HRT raises risk of rare type of breast cancer Jan 15, 2008
But use of HRT plunged after the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study found that HRT could raise the risk not only of breast and ovarian cancer, but of strokes and other serious conditions. Research since then shows the incidence of breast cancer dropped by 8. (Globe and Mail)
Some Types Of Temporary Neurological Problems Associated With Increased Risk For Stroke, Dementia Dec 29, 2007
(May 28, 2003) The latest findings from Women's Health Initiative studies provide new evidence that the combined hormone therapy significantly boosts the risks of dementia and strokes in postmenopausal women. . (Science Daily)
Cancer Care Advances in 2007 Offer Hope Dec 18, 2007
Other important news: Two studies this year confirmed that the significant drop in breast cancer rates is linked to fewer menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy, following the 2002 Women's Health Initiative finding that uncovered the connection. "It's quite clear in breast cancer that we have had steady reductions in deaths due to breast cancer over the last decade," Gralow said. (Health-Finder)
Powerful Tool To Study The Genetics Of Inflammation Developed Dec 9, 2007
This study is part of a larger study through the Women's Health Initiative that explores the role of inflammation in colon, breast and lung cancer. It's sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. (Science Daily)
Blood Markers Might Predict Clotting Risk With HRT Dec 9, 2007 New Model Predicts Breast Cancer Risk In African-American Women Dec 2, 2007 Doctor focuses on hips at risk Dec 1, 2007 Osteo 'to blame' for many fractures Dec 1, 2007 Menopause Estrogen and Cholesterol Nov 29, 2007 Criteria Predict Women's 5-Year Risk for Fracture Nov 29, 2007 Low Testosterone Might Shorten Men's Lives Nov 29, 2007 Old formulas underestimated breast-cancer risk for Blacks Nov 28, 2007 Predicting The Risk Of Hip Fracture In Postmenopausal Women Nov 28, 2007 Ozone Key To Link Between Heat And Increased Cardiovascular Death Risk Nov 26, 2007 Cigarette Smoking Linked with Rectal Cancer Risk Nov 24, 2007 Smoking is Associated with Rectal Cancer Nov 15, 2007 Simpler Way To Assess Breast Cancer Risk Found Nov 15, 2007 Early HRT Protects a Woman's Heart Nov 8, 2007 From Hot Flashes to Breast Cancer: ZRT Labs' Hormone Testing Catches On As Women Consider Safer, More Natural Options. Oct 27, 2007 Hagler speaks to Democrats club Oct 23, 2007 Mounting evidence suggests even moderate drinking risky Oct 21, 2007 Diet & ovarian cancer Oct 13, 2007 College, hospital host HealthFest Oct 13, 2007 Reduce risk of ovarian cancer with low-fat diet Oct 11, 2007 Children's behavior and TV time: Study claims a link Oct 11, 2007 Low-fat diet after menopause seems to reduce risk of ovarian cancer, researchers find Oct 10, 2007 Low-fat diet may lower ovarian cancer risk Oct 10, 2007 More Fiber, Less Fat Help Prevent Ovarian Cancer Oct 10, 2007 Belly Fat, Weight Cycling Ups Kidney Cancer Risk Oct 9, 2007 High white cell count may predict cancer: study Oct 4, 2007 Panic Attacks Could Put Women at Risk For Heart Attacks Oct 3, 2007 Beautiful in Pink Oct 1, 2007 U.S. Breast Cancer Deaths Drop Sep 26, 2007 HRT: A Boost for Libido, but Not Memory Sep 26, 2007 Hormone Therapy Boosts Sexual Interest But Not Memory, Study Suggests Sep 26, 2007 Most Women Unaware of Hormone Replacement Study Sep 25, 2007 Low Vitamin D Linked To Higher Risk Of Hip Fracture Sep 22, 2007 Less than one-third of women aware of landmark hormone therapy study, Stanford researcher finds Sep 19, 2007 Cholesterol Byproduct Linked To Heart Risk In Women Sep 18, 2007 Leaders and legacies serve needs Sep 17, 2007 Mad? No, but they deserve to be Sep 6, 2007 Flaxseed May Relieve Hot Flashes Sep 1, 2007 Removing Ovaries Before Menopause Can Lead To Memory And Movement Problems Aug 31, 2007 Mo HealthNet replaces Medicaid Aug 30, 2007 Removing Ovaries Before Menopause Leads to Memory, Movement Troubles Aug 30, 2007 For a low-dose hormone, take your pick Aug 30, 2007 Removing Ovaries Before Menopause Affects Memory and Movement, Study Finds Aug 30, 2007 Ovary Removal May Up Dementia Risk Aug 30, 2007 Estrogen May Protect Against Dementia Aug 30, 2007 Breast cancer drop linked to less hormone use Aug 28, 2007 Fat at Menopause Linked to Brain Estrogen Receptors Aug 21, 2007 Markers That May Predict Diabetes In Still-healthy People Identified Aug 20, 2007 Low levels of key protein may indicate pancreatic cancer risk Aug 16, 2007 Drop In Breast Cancer Incidence Linked To Hormone Use, Not Mammograms Aug 15, 2007 Decline in U.S. Breast Cancers Tied to Drop in Hormone Use Aug 15, 2007 Study links breast-cancer risk to hormone therapy Aug 15, 2007 'Without hormones, quality of life is gone' Aug 2, 2007 Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered Jul 30, 2007 Breast cancer, hormone therapy linked Jul 29, 2007 UCLA researcher who oversaw important study on women dies at 71 Jul 29, 2007 New Study Reaffirms HRT-Breast Cancer Link Jul 26, 2007 Breast Cancer And Hormone Therapy -- A Looking-glass Mirror? Jul 26, 2007 Home remedy to heal facial blemishes: Listerine Jul 24, 2007 We Stand by Data on Heart Disease Risk in Estrogen Drug Study Jul 21, 2007 Jumping to HRT conclusions puts women at risk Jul 20, 2007 Another Study Sees Heart Risks in Hormone Replacement Therapy Jul 13, 2007 Reevaluating Hormone Replacement Therapy Jul 12, 2007 Air pollution holds risks for athletes who exercise outdoors Jul 12, 2007 Politicians already looking for ways to spend extra cash Jul 11, 2007
The group looked at women who had been part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a large, government-sponsored study which investigated the most common causes of death and low quality of life among postmenopausal women ... Visit the for more on the Women's Health Initiative. (Health-Finder)
Overturned $3M Verdict Explained in Hormone Replacement Therapy Opinion Dec 7, 2007
He said Prempro warnings actually suggested a higher causation of breast cancer during the time Nelson was taking the drug than was found to exist in the Women's Health Initiative study done by the National Institutes of Health in 2002. While Nelson might argue more stringent tests were needed, she couldn't argue Wyeth was malicious in its actions, Jackson said. (Law.com)
They then used data from two trials--the Women's Health Initiative and the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR)--to test the model. The new CARE model accurately predicted the number of cancers observed in African American women in the Women's Health Initiative overall and in most subgroups. (Science Daily)
Analyzing data collected from the nationwide Women's Health Initiative, Robbins and other researchers identified 11 risk factors for hip fractures among postmenopausal women ... "Because of the hundreds of thousands of women involved in the Women's Health Initiative, we were able to develop a more powerful tool for the prediction of hip fracture than has been possible before," Robbins said. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
The findings came from data collected from thousands of women who participated in a study called the Women's Health Initiative. 2007. (The Age)
Subsequently, another similar large clinical trial was conducted, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). This major 15-year research program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) addressed the most common causes of death, disability and poor quality of life in postmenopausal women. (Suite101.com)
In devising the new algorithm, Robbins' team looked at data on almost 100,000 women who participated in the U.S. government-sponsored Women's Health Initiative (WHI). The 11 predictors chosen were validated on 68,132 women and tested in 10,750 women who had undergone dual energy x-ray absorptiometry scans (DXA) to assess bone mass density. (MEDLINEplus)
Instead, the Women's Health Initiative, a major study released in 2002, found that women taking HRT were at increased incidence of stroke, blood clots and breast cancer, noted Plutzky, who is also a spokesman for the American Cancer Society. HRT prescriptions dropped off precipitously after the study's release. (MEDLINEplus)
The researchers then tested the new version and showed that it would have accurately predicted how many African-American women in the federal government's Women's Health Initiative would have developed breast cancer. Next, the team compared the new model to the old one by using both to assess data collected from 20,278 African-American women who were screened for eligibility for a landmark breast-cancer prevention trial, the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) trial, which compared... (AZCentral -- News)
The study included data on a total of 93,676 women who participated in the observational component of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a multiethnic study. Factors were identified that were predictors of hip fracture, which were then validated using data on 68,132 women who participated in the clinical trial. (Science Daily)
27, 2007) According to researchers studying postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative, prehypertension exists in about 40 percent of postmenopausal women and it is associated with a 58 percent. (Nov. (Science Daily)
The investigators looked at the incidence of colorectal cancer among more than 140,000 women between 50 and 79 years old, who participated in Women's Health Initiative, a long-term observational study. Of these women, 51 percent reported never smoking, 42 percent were past smokers, and 7 percent were current smokers. (MEDLINEplus)
D., of Ohio State University in Columbus and colleagues investigated the association between smoking history and colorectal cancer among nearly 147,000 participants in the Women's Health Initiative. After an average follow-up of about 8 years, 1,242 women were diagnosed with colorectal cancer. (Science Daily)
Using data from the Women's Health Initiative, a 15-year research program involving 161,808 postmenopausal women and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the researchers found postmenopausal women were at an "increased risk" of developing breast cancer if they were: 55 years of age or older and had either had a breast biopsy at any time, regardless of findings, or had a first-degree relative (mother, sister or daughter) who had breast cancer diagnosed at any age. "Increased risk" is... (Science Daily)
The findings were not consistent with those of the Women's Health Initiative, leading NHLBI cardiologist and study co-author Dr. George Sopko to say, "I'm somewhat surprised by that. In our cohort, many -- if not most -- of these women had uninterrupted hormonal status. There was not a gap between the decline of reproductive hormone levels and the start of replacement therapy, and maybe that is one of the key elements.". Oral contraceptives are one of the most frequently used drugs in the world... (MEDLINEplus)
After the large, federal Women's Health Initiative study was cut short in 2002 when stunned doctors and patients saw that conventional Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) increased the risk of heart attack, strokes and breast cancer, millions of women took the news to heart and stopped taking the drugs. And a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (4/19/07) recently revealed that after the sharp decline in use of HRT, breast cancer rates also declined. (PR Newswire)
And as Chief of Staff to the Missouri Speaker of the House, he worked to pass the landmark Women's Health Initiative, working with members of both political parties and diverse pro-life/pro-choice constituencies to place the medical needs of women above politics. Dr. Hagler has also served as Director of Corporate Affairs, University of Missouri Rolla, and as Director of Governmental and International Affairs, California State Polytechnic University- Pomona. (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
That's twice the increase in relative risk attributed to Prempro, the hormone pill tested in the Women's Health Initiative, the well-known study that found the risks of hormone replacement outweigh the benefits. Last month, yet another study reinforced the fact that even a glass or two of wine a day increases breast-cancer risk. (AZCentral -- News)
It's arguably the most promising finding of the mammoth Women's Health Initiative dietary study, which enrolled tens of thousands of healthy women to track the effects of teaching them to cut fat and eat more fruits and vegetables. So far, the has had seemingly little impact on rates of breast cancer, colorectal cancer and even, surprisingly, heart disease. (CNN)
The Women's Health Initiative program involves a 10-week education course that covers multiple dimensions of women's health. The program is open to the public during the spring. (Olney Daily Mail, IL)
It's arguably the most promising finding of the mammoth Women's Health Initiative dietary study, which enrolled tens of thousands of healthy women to track the effects of teaching them to cut fat and eat more fruits and vegetables. So far, the diet has had seemingly little impact on rates of breast cancer, colorectal cancer and even, surprisingly, heart disease. (Camdenton Lake Sun Leader, MO)
The women were enrolled in the larger Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, which is looking into the risk factors for heart disease, cancer, fractures and other causes of mortality among postmenopausal women. The current study, published in the October issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry, was partly financed by GlaxoSmithKline. (International Herald Tribune)
It's arguably the most promising finding of the mammoth Women's Health Initiative dietary study, which enrolled tens of thousands of healthy women ages 50 to 79 to track the role of fat in several leading killers. Some women were assigned to cut the total fat in their diets to 20 percent of calories - from an average of 35 percent - while others continued their usual diets for comparison. (Boston Globe)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term adherence to a low-fat diet may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to the results of the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification trial, which involved nearly 50,000 postmenopausal women. "While other studies have examined the association between dietary fat and the incidence of cancer, including cancer of the ovary, among postmenopausal women, this is the first study to randomly assign women to a low-fat eating pattern or their usual diet... (Scientific American)
D., professor, biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and principal investigator, Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center; Robert Morgan Jr., M.D., section head, medical gynecologic oncology, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, Calif ... "In particular, the Women's Health Initiative intervention did not have a goal of restricting energy [calorie] consumption, though participating intervention group women... (Health-Finder)
Luo and colleagues analyzed data from more than 140,000 U.S. women, aged 50 to 79 years, enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative study. They compared associations between the development of renal cell carcinoma, a cancer of the lining of the kidney, and the women's body weight and frequency of weight loss and regain (weight cycling) over an average of 7. (MEDLINEplus)
Dr. Karen L. Margolis from HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota and colleagues studied the relation between the baseline WBC count and newly diagnosed breast, colorectal, endometrial, and lung cancers in 143,748 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). All of the women were between the ages of 50 and 79 years old, and cancer-free at the outset. (Scientific American)
The study was derived from the Women's Health Initiative, which examined risk factors for heart disease among older women ... The Women's Health Initiative also found that depression can contributes to heart disease. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
n Campbell's Soup " Stop by your local store and pick up a can of Chicken Noodle Soup or Tomato Soup, dressed in a pink and white label. The company plans to donate $300,000 to help support breast cancer research, education and screening. Proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure movement, breastcancer.org and Giving Hope a Hand, The Korger Co.'s corporate women's health initiative. Donation is not linked to purchase price, soup unit sales, or retailer order and display levels.n Yoplait... (Pensacola News Journal)
Reason No. 1: Many women halted hormone replacement therapy (HRT) starting in 2002, after the Women's Health Initiative linked HRT to breast cancer risk. Researchers continue to debate that risk. (CBS News)
The landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Memory Study, released in 2004, found that estrogen on its own did not protect women from normal declines in cognitive function ... The authors had originally intended to look at 275 women, but enrollment coincided with the release of the results of the original Women's Health Initiative, which found various negative health effects from hormone therapy. (MEDLINEplus)
The study, which is the largest randomized trial to date examining hormone therapy and memory in midlife women, was stopped early due to declining enrollment that coincided with results of the Women's Health Initiative, which found that the associated health risks of the therapy outweighed the benefits. This research is published in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Neurology. (Science Daily)
That study, called the Women's Health Initiative, generated massive amounts of publicity immediately after it was released ... The question was posed this way: "Have you heard or read anything about the results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a major research study in the U.S. suggesting the health risks of taking hormone therapy outweigh the benefits for most women?". (MEDLINEplus)
Jane A. Cauley, Dr.P.H., professor of epidemiology, and colleagues evaluated patient data on 400 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study Cohort who had experienced hip fracture, confirmed by their medical record, over a median of 7 ... As a co-principal investigator for the University of Pittsburgh's site of the Women's Health Initiative, a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study, Dr. Cauley and her colleagues continue to examine the effects calcium and vitamin... (Science Daily)
Few research studies have had the impact on public health recommendations as the 2002 results reported by the federally funded Women's Health Initiative, the longest-ever examination of the health of postmenopausal women ... One of the survey questions was, "Have you heard or read anything about the results of the Women's Health Initiative, a major research study in the U.S. suggesting the health risks of taking hormone therapy outweigh the benefits for most women"" Stafford found that only 29... (EurekAlert!)
The finding, based on laboratory and animal experiments, may also help explain why hormone replacement therapy in the landmark Women's Health Initiative appeared to increase the risk of heart disease, the researchers suggested. "In the Women's Health Initiative research program, the women who began taking (hormone replacement therapy) were an average of 13 years post-menopause," Dr. Mangelsdorf said. (MedPage Today)
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In the five years since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) suddenly called a halt to its landmark HRT study in the summer of 2002 because it was too risky to continue, a stream of research has confirmed the havoc the drugs can wreak. Starting that same summer, the use of hormone replacement therapy plummeted. (Toronto Star)
While hormone replacement therapy, particularly estrogen, is effective against hot flashes, its long-term use has fallen out of favor since the large study known as the Women's Health Initiative found an increased risk of heart disease, breast cancer and other problems with long-term HRT use. So, Pruthi and her team were looking at options for women who suffered from hot flashes but didn't want to take estrogen. (Forbes)
"For example, the study found women who had both ovaries removed before age 49, but were given estrogen treatment until at least age 50, did not have an increased risk of developing memory problems. These findings suggest that estrogen is protective for these women in this age window. By contrast, past studies from the Women's Health Initiative have shown that estrogen use started at age 65 years or later may have a negative effect on memory and may increase the risk of developing dementia,"... (Science Daily)
Similarly, there is no money budgeted for the bill's women's health initiative, which would provide pelvic exams, cancer screenings and family planning services to an estimated 82,500 lower-income women age 18 and older who lack employer-sponsored health insurance. This year's budget does include money for provisions that include expanded coverage to several thousand children of lower-income parents; extended coverage for foster children up to age 21 instead of 18; and restored or improved... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
There has been some evidence that estrogen can protect against cognitive decline, although the landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study actually showed the opposite for women aged 65 and older. The authors of the new study used the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a database of records dating from 1935 housed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, to identify all women in Olmsted County, Minn. (Health-Finder)
Patches, pumps, pills, low-dose pills and super-low-dose creams and gels: Ever since the landmark Women's Health Initiative study found that hormone therapy could be harmful, a dizzying array of new low-dose treatment options have been offered to counter the symptoms of menopause ... The variety reflects the industry's efforts to win back women with symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness who are reluctant to use traditional products because of the Women's Health Initiative... (International Herald Tribune)
The current findings and a previous study, which found a 20 to 40 percent reduction in risk of Alzheimer's disease in women who were treated with estrogen, are in conflict with findings from the Women's Health Initiative, which showed an increased risk of dementia at age 65 or later. Changing With Time. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Participants in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Memory Study who took estrogen alone or estrogen plus progestin before age 65 were about 50% less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or another age-related dementia as women who did not take hormones before that age. Stanford University professor of neurology Victor Henderson, MD, who led that study, says the clinical implications of all the new research remain somewhat puzzling. (WebMD)
The link between protective mental health benefits and estrogen therapy appears to conflict with the findings of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which found that women who took estrogen alone or estrogen plus progestin from age 65 increased their risk of mild impairment or dementia along with other cardiovascular problems. But the authors of the Neurology studies stress that the age-dependent window is key when considering therapy and mental health. (TIME)
" The prevalence of postmenopausal HRT use started to decline about the same time that observational studies in early 2000 linked use of estrogen and progestin combinations to greater breast cancer risk than use of estrogen alone. An even greater decline followed the release of the Women's Health Initiative study in 2002. Your Health Tools The current study involved over 600,000 screening mammograms on women 50-69 years of age, of whom 3238 had breast cancer. The rate of estrogen... (CNN)
But if therapy could target just the estrogen receptor-alpha cells in the brain, and not those in the breast or elsewhere in the body, Dr. Clegg said, it might outweigh risks uncovered in the Women's Health Initiative study. "This is a very novel finding and it's very important," Dr. Clegg said in an interview after her presentation, "and we hope one day to be able to take it into the clinic.". (MedPage Today)
The researchers took advantage of the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHIOS), an ongoing, long term study that was designed to examine the association between behavior, socioeconomic status, diet, and other factors and the effect on a woman's health. Liu and colleagues took baseline level measurements of inflammatory cytokines in apparently healthy women without any signs of diabetes who were between the ages of 50 and 79 years-old, then tracked their health for the next six... (Science Daily)
The investigators measured circulating IGFBP-1 levels in a select group of participants in four large, ongoing health studies: the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, the Nurses' Health Study, the Physicians' Health Study, and the Women's Health Initiative. They collected blood samples from 573 participants and, four or more years later, checked IGFBP-1 levels in the samples of 144 people who developed pancreatic cancer and 429 who did not. (EurekAlert!)
There has been a recent, rapid decline in postmenopausal hormone therapy use since 2002 when the Women's Health Initiative study found that hormone therapy was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Recent data has linked a decrease in breast cancer incidence over the last few years to this drop in hormone use, but this explanation remains controversial. (Science Daily)
The drop coincided with a rapid decline in postmenopausal hormone therapy starting in 2002, when the results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) were released ... There's more on the Women's Health Initiative at the. (Health-Finder)
Then in 2002, the landmark Women's Health Initiative study revealed that women who took Prempro, an estrogen-progestin pill, were more likely to develop breast cancer or to have a heart attack or strokes than women taking placebo. Between 2002 and 2003, the number of Americans on hormone therapy plummeted 34 percent. (Seattle Times)
The WHI (Women's Health Initiative study) said Premarin can be dangerous, harmful and even fatal (for extended use). When a woman hasn't found what I found, doesn't want synthetics, then the only thing they have to offer her is the menopause cocktail of antidepressants, tranquilizers, painkillers all of which are rectified by complete hormonal balance. (The Daily Reflector)
BWH is also home to major landmark epidemiologic population studies, including the Nurses' and Physicians' Health Studies and the Women's Health Initiative. For more information about BWH, please visit. (EurekAlert!)
Prescriptions for estrogen and progestin fell by nearly half in 2003 after 2002 results from the Women's Health Initiative linked an increased breast cancer risk to hormone replacement therapy. Nearly 40 percent of post-menopausal women had used the hormones to ease menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, and to prevent conditions related to aging, including osteoporosis. (AZCentral -- News)
Judd was a principal investigator of the Women's Health Initiative, a sweeping federal study launched in the 1990s, until he retired from UCLA in 2005. In 2002, the study's clinical trial on hormone-replacement therapy appeared to put women at increased risk for heart attack and stroke and it was called off three years early. (Fresno Bee -- State)
The decline in the number of U.S. women taking hormone replacement therapy came after publication of the results of the landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial in 2002. That study, involving 16,608 participants, was halted after researchers found elevated health risks among HRT users, most notably for breast cancer and stroke. (MEDLINEplus)
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial was a landmark in menopause medicine since it provided information based on the best available study methodology[2 ... Rossouw JE, Anderson GL, Prentice RL, et al. Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial. (Science Daily)
Then a large study (Women's Health Initiative) cast doubt on the benefits of HRT. Women were told these hormones could raise the risk of breast cancer and heart disease. A new analysis of this research reveals that women in their 50s who had hysterectomies and were only taking estrogen had less calcified plaque in their heart arteries. (Newsday -- Health)
On behalf of the Women's Health Initiative investigators, we wish to address misperceptions in your article "How NIH Misread Hormone Study in 2002" (Marketplace, July 9). First, we want to clarify that the WHI investigators and the National Institutes of Health, which funds the WHI, are jointly responsible for all scientific articles arising from the study. (Wall Street Journal)
The Women's Health Initiative was a massive study, launched in 1993, that enrolled almost 162,000 postmenopausal women, aged 50 to 79. Part of the study was intended to examine the risks and benefits of HRT.. (Globe and Mail)
The landmark U.S. Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial was halted in 2002 after finding that postmenopausal women taking HRT had more heart attacks and strokes than women who did not use hormones ... The WISDOM (Women's International Study of Long Duration Oestrogen After Menopause) trial was also halted after the first results of the Women's Health Initiative were published ... Unlike the Women's Health Initiative, however, WISDOM had not finished enrolling participants and wasn't big enough... (MEDLINEplus)
WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Five years after the results of the Women's Health Initiative sounded the supposed death knell for hormone replacement therapy, experts gathered Wednesday to reassess those results and discuss the fine-tuning and evaluation that has taken place since ... The original Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was halted when U.S. researchers found an increased risk of adverse events which, depending on whether the woman was taking estrogen alone or estrogen plus... (Forbes)
A study that used the mass of data included in the Women's Health Initiative found that women who lived in communities with relatively high levels of air pollution in the forms of tiny particles - also known as soot - were far more likely to die because of heart attacks than women who lived in cleaner air. Results were published in February in The New England Journal of Medicine. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
The bill Blunt signed into law authorizes dental and optical coverage for adult Medicaid recipients and creates a new women's health initiative, but the budget lawmakers passed included no money for those services. For the recently concluded 2007 fiscal year, Missouri's net general revenues totaled more than 7. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
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