The WHI Quilts
When I saw the striking cover of the "Brookfield Zoo Views" summer 2002 publication I thought of the WHI letter. The beautiful cover shows a colorful butterfly sitting atop a pink aster. This to me is a symbol of women and the WHI. The picture made me want to TRY to copy it for a quilt block. The butterfly is a symbol of femininity and the one in the picture surely is being nourished by the flower nectar. This represents WHI and all the women connected with it, the present as well as future generations.
EH
LaGrange, IL
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NEW! Addition to WHI Extension II the WHI Long Life Study
Scientists and leaders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the WHI Long Life Study to learn even more about health, aging, and the health effects of physical activity among women who are age 72 and older. Women that are eligible will receive a consent form in the mail sometime between December 2011 and November 2012. You may have already received the consent form. If so, we hope you will consider participating and return it to us soon.
The WHI is working with a national health care examination company called Examination Management Services, Inc. (EMSI). If a woman consents, a trained research assistant from EMSI will schedule a convenient time for an appointment at the participant’s home, or other location if preferred. The research assistant will collect a fasting blood sample and some of the same measurements that were taken for WHI in the 1990s, for example, blood pressure, height, and weight. The EMSI research assistants are well-trained by both EMSI and WHI, and they are experienced in drawing blood and taking the study measurements. For your safety, EMSI does a background check on all of its research assistants before they are hired.
For more information about EMSI,
please visit their website.
The Long Life Study Consent Form can be viewed
here.
If you have questions about this study, please see our
Frequently Asked Questions or call us toll free at 1-800-550-0025 and leave a message. We will call you back with an answer as soon as possible.
