Women's Health Initiative
Initiatives
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* To address major health issues causing morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal women.
* To investigate strategies for preventing heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.
**General enquiries: helpdesk@whi.org**
- Start Year
- 1992
- End Year
- 2007
- Funding
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and NHLBI
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/womens-health-initiative-whi
Visit WHI
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Design
- Study design
- Other : Clinical Trial; Observational study
- Follow Up
- Women in the clinical trial are followed through regularly scheduled examinations to ensure the timely ascertainment of updated medical histories, tomonitor the occurrence of possible adverse effects, to dispense study medications, and to promote adherence to the study protocol. Observational study (OS) participants are contacted annually by mail to obtain updates of their medical histories and selected exposure data. At about 3 years after enrollment, all OS participants are invited to a clinic follow-up visit to update selected baseline data, to obtain additional risk factor data, and to collect a blood specimen.
- Supplementary Information
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Health_Initiative
Marker Paper
Design of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial and observational study. The Women's Health Initiative Study Group. Control Clin Trials. 1998 Feb;19(1):61-109. doi: 10.1016/s0197-2456(97)00078-0.
PUBMED 9492970
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 161,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Post-menopausal women. The average age of women still active in WHI is 83 years and ranges from 71 to 103 years.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.whi.org/