Women’s Health Initiative
Long-term national health study focused on strategies for preventing heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer.
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is a long-term national health study that has focused on strategies for preventing the major causes of death, disability, and frailty in older women, specifically heart disease, cancer, and osteoporotic fractures.
This multi-million dollar, 20+ year project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), originally enrolled 161,808 women aged 50-79 between 1993 and 1998. The WHI was one of the most definitive, far-reaching clinical trials of post-menopausal women's health ever undertaken in the US. The WHI Clinical Trial and Observational Study focused on many of the inequities in women's health research.
Visit website: https://www.whi.org/SitePages/WHI%20Home.aspx
Details last updated 30-May-2020
Women’s Health Initiative News
Physical activity, more walk-most promising ways to reduce risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
UC San Diego School of Medicine - 25-Jan-2023
Prevention is important as once dementia is diagnosed, it is very difficult to slow or reverse
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Marie Claire - 17-Sep-2017
The Women’s Health Initiative collected data from 16,000 post-menopausal women. And researchers ...
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