JoAnn E Manson, Carolyn J Crandall, Jacques E Rossouw, Rowan T Chlebowski, Garnet L Anderson, Marcia L Stefanick, Aaron K Aragaki, Jane A Cauley, Gretchen L Wells, Andrea Z LaCroix, Cynthia A Thomson, Marian L Neuhouser, Linda Van Horn, Charles Kooperberg, Barbara V Howard, Lesley F Tinker, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Sally A Shumaker, Ross L Prentice
IMPORTANCE: Approximately 55 million people in the US and approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide are postmenopausal women. To inform clinical practice about the health effects of menopausal hormone therapy, calcium plus vitamin D supplementation, and a low-fat dietary pattern, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) enrolled 161 808 postmenopausal US women (N = 68 132 in the clinical trials) aged 50 to 79 years at baseline from 1993 to 1998, and followed them up for up to 20 years...
May 1, 2024: JAMA