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The Women's Health Initiative
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The Women's Health Initiative, started in 1991 by Bernadine Healy, was the largest randomized clinical trial in history to involve only women, studying health outcomes for 160,000 postmenopausal women, and found that hormone therapy carried a small but statistically significant increased risk of cardiac events, strokes, and clots, as well as an increased risk of breast cancer.
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The Women's Health Initiative, started in 1991, aimed at studying health outcomes for postmenopausal women.
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Women's Health Initiative
Summary
The Women's Health Initiative, started in 1991, aimed at studying health outcomes for postmenopausal women. The initiative found that hormone therapy carried an increased risk of cardiac events, strokes, clots and breast cancer, however, the number of women taking hormones continued to rise over the next two decades.