What does WHIMS stand for?

Women's Health Initiative Memory Study

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In fact, in the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study, women 65 and older who took estrogen or estrogen plus progestin were twice as likely to be diagnosed with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, as similar women who took no hormones.

Soy what? The jury's still out on soy's benefits

The negative and unexpected side effects of HT on brain functioning were confirmed by the results of the two hormone therapy trials in the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (reported in 2003 and 2004) that explored HT's impact on women's cognitive functioning.

Hormone therapy & cognitive preservation--now a distant memory!

Our findings suggest one possible explanation for the increased risk for dementia in older women who had previously taken post-menopausal hormone therapy in the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study," said Susan Resnick, Ph.

Hormone replacement therapy 'shrinks' brain

One NIH study -- the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study, or WHIMS -- recently showed that taking a combination of estrogen and progestin actually increased the risk of dementia in women.

Estrogen Research at Stanford Looks for Potential Cognitive Boost

Menopause: reducing symptoms: what works? What doesn't?

The new data from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) are consistent with these recommendations.

No decline in dementia risk with estrogen use

The FDA made the suggestion after reviewing information from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2003.

ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss FDA Recommendation To Change ...

The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) has enrolled 8,000 women in the first double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, long-term clinical trial designed to test the hypothesis that hormone replacement therapy reduces the incidence or rate of progression of dementia in women 65 years and older.

Estrogen, NSAID Use for Alzheimer's Is Premature