Hormone Replacement Therapy
Estrogen Replacement Therapy: A Survey of Older Women's Attitudes
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 29th, 1996
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Archives of Internal Medicine, "Objectives: To understand the low prevalence of estrogen use among older women. To examine the reasons for the use and nonuse of estrogen replacement therapy. Subjects and Methods: Nonblack women (n=7667), aged 65 years or older, who participated in the Multicenter Study of Osteoporotic Fractures completed an estrogen questionnaire. Results: Of the subjects, 1335 (17.4%) were currently using oral estrogens, 2084 (27.2%) were past users, and 4248 (55.4%) had never used oral estrogen therapy. The self-reported primary reasons for current users to have initiated therapy...
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