Journal of women's health
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Journal of women's health · May 2004
After the Women's Health Initiative: Postmenopausal women's experiences with discontinuing estrogen replacement therapy.
To gather information about women's responses to the publication of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and to determine what proportion of women stopped hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and whether the technique of discontinuation affected the recurrence of menopausal symptoms. ⋯ In a population of women veterans, 77% stopped HRT after publication of the WHI. Tapering HRT, rather than stopping abruptly, did not reduce the recurrence of menopausal symptoms in our patient population.