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U.S. Women's Health Study Arms Still Seeking Participants

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 26th, 1998

Do hormones prevent heart disease' Will a low-fat diet protect you from cancers of the breast and colon' Can vitamin D prevent the bone fractures of osteoporosis'

These questions face 37.5 million women in the U.S. Now, more than 160,000 of them have decided to be part of the answer.

They have joined the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a 15-year study supported by the National Institutes of Health and administered by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Since 1991, the WHI has examined the leading causes of death, disability, and frailty in post-menopausal women including heart disease, breast and colorectal cancers, and...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1998-10-26)

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