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Menopausal hormone therapy trends before versus after 2002
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Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society, vol Publish Ahead of Print, iss &NA
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ObjectiveTo better understand how to educate patients and providers about study findings relevant to treatment guidelines, we assessed pre- versus post-Women's Health Initiative (WHI) differences in menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) initiation and continuation and their correlates, and in women's reasons for initiation and discontinuation.MethodsWe analyzed survey data from up to 14 approximately annual visits over 17 years (1996-2013) from 3,018 participants in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, a prospective cohort study. We used logistic regression to compare pre- versus post-WHI associations of covariates with MHT initiation and continuation, and to compare pre- versus post-WHI reasons for initiation and continuation.ResultsMHT initiation dropped from 8.6% pre-WHI to 2.8% post-WHI (P