Hormone Therapy Prescribing Patterns in the United States

We sought to examine prescribing patterns (prevalence and rates of initiation and discontinuation) for estrogen plus progestin (hormone therapy [HT] and estrogen alone [ET]) in the United States in the 2 years before the published results of Women's Health Initiative's (WHI) HT trial's early termination and for 5 months after their release.We conducted an observational cohort study of 169,586 women aged 40-80 years who were enrolled in 5 health...