Sentences with phrase «whi findings»

It's incredibly reassuring for the scores of women who have taken HRT over the years, and have been concerned about the 2002 WHI findings correlating HRT and cancer.

While most members of the press reported the latest WHI findings properly, the longstanding confusion between progesterone and progestins found its way into some prominent papers.

News Organizations Make a Mess of the Latest WHI Findings By Confusing Progesterone with Progestins, the Washington Post and Other Media Outlets Mislead Readers... Once Again

Not exact matches

Self - reporting of fractures may not be as accurate as medically verified breaks, but misclassifications of fractures in the WHI have been low; WHI participants may be healthier than other women, so these findings may not be representative of postmenopausal women as a whole and the number of women who had normal bone mineral density but nonetheless suffered wrist fractures was low

Then the landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study found that an HRT treatment of estrogen plus progestin increased the stroke and breast cancer risk in some women.