Review of the
Women's Health Initiative (WHI) |
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The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) is a continuing, multi-million dollar,
15-year national health study focused on developing strategies to prevent the
chronic diseases that are the major causes of death, disability, and frailty in
older women. These conditions are heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer
and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Heart and
Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the WHI involves the participation of over
161,000 women aged 50-79. As such, it is one of the most definitive,
far-reaching clinical trials of women’s health ever undertaken in the U.S.
The following site contains findings on the estrogen-only study and the
estrogen plus progestin study, the findings of which differ significantly. For
more information on study results, visit http://www.whi.org/findings.
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