In 2004,
WHI researchers also stopped giving HT to women who had undergone hysterectomy, because those taking estrogen alone had a higher rate of stroke than those taking the placebo.
Not exact matches
In 2004,
researchers published results of the
WHI study of estrogen - only therapy, taken for about seven years by women who had had their uteruses surgically removed.
The
researchers used information from the Women's Health Initiative (
WHI), whose participants were aged 50 to 79 at the start of the study in 1993.
Researchers launched the
WHI in part to study the long - term effects of hormone replacement.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Cancer Institute and Wyeth - Ayerst Research Laboratories funded the study, which involved
researchers at nine institutions and 15
WHI clinical - study sites nationwide.