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WHI strives to improve health through research on risk factors, prevention, and early detection of serious health conditions, so postmenopausal women thrive.

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Impacting lives through groundbreaking research

Impacting lives through groundbreaking research
161,000 +study participants
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12,600fewer cases of breast cancer each year as a result of WHI research
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The Women’s Health Initiative is a landmark study that has had a huge impact on medical practice and public health.

— Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., NHLBI Director
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WHI News

Remembering Gloria Sarto

Remembering Gloria Sarto

6/18/2024
We are saddened to inform you of the passing of one of the WHI’s esteemed Investigators Dr. Gloria Sarto.
WHI Highlighted at 75th Anniversary of NHLBI

WHI Highlighted at 75th Anniversary of NHLBI

2/28/2024
WHI Profile in celebration of NHLBI’s 75th anniversary, featuring a WHI Participant
Radon Exposure and Stroke Risk in the Women's Health Initiative

Radon Exposure and Stroke Risk in the Women's Health Initiative

2/2/2024
A paper studying the association between radon and stroke in woman has been published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology
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Recent Publications

Diabetes risk reduction diet and risk of liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality: a prospective cohort study

Xuehong Zhang et al., 2024/9 PubMed #39239793

Metabolite predictors of breast and colorectal cancer risk in the Women's Health Initiative

Johanna Lampe et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39195559

An assessment of compositional methods for the analysis of DNA methylation-based deconvolution estimates

Alexander Alsup et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39093129

Intergenerational occurrence of premature birth in prematurely-born women in the Women's Health Initiative

Mary Sullivan et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39192085

Joint effect of rheumatoid arthritis and diet quality on cardiovascular and mortality outcomes: insights from the Women's Health Initiative

Kanika Malani et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39098912

Risk factors for long COVID syndrome in postmenopausal women with previously reported diagnosis of COVID-19  

Marian Neuhouser et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39142425

Menopausal hormone therapy and ovarian and endometrial cancers: long-term follow-up of the Women’s Health Initiative randomized trials

Rowan Chlebowski et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39173088

Accuracy of self-reported treated hypertension in the Women’s Health Initiative: Comparisons with medication inventories

Michael LaMonte et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39161156

Metabolomic profiles of incident gallstone disease

Eugenia Uche-Anya et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39209332

DXA-Measured Abdominal Adipose Depots and Structural Brain Integrity in Postmenopausal Women

JoAnn Manson et al., 2024/8 PubMed #39129431

Associations of steps per day and step intensity with the risk of cancer: Findings from the Women’s Health Accelerometry Collaboration cohort

Carmen Cuthbertson et al., 2024/7 PubMed #39029743

Estrogen plus progestin and colorectal cancer: long-term findings from the Women's Health Initiative randomized clinical trial

Kathy Pan et al., 2024/7 PubMed #39028918

Discovering the direct relations between nutrients and epigenetic ageing

Pol Grootswagers et al., 2024/7 PubMed #39067141

The genome-wide mutational landscape of lung cancer in never-smokers (LCNS): The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) cohort

Heather Wakelee et al., 2024/7 PubMed #39052387

Association of diet quality with risk of incident rheumatoid arthritis in the Women’s Health Initiative

Kanika Malani et al., 2024/7 PubMed #39025233

Effects of moderate/vigorous activity on 3-year body composition changes in postmenopausal women: a target trial emulation

Jiarui Li et al., 2024/7 PubMed #38992341

Association of clonal hematopoiesis and mosaic chromosomal alterations with solid malignancy incidence and mortality

Pinkal Desai et al., 2024/7 PubMed #39012906

Cardiovascular burden of the V142I Transthyretin Variant

Senthil Selvaraj et al., 2024/6 PubMed #38734952

Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and pancreatic cancer risk in the Women’s Health Initiative

Theodore Brasky et al., 2024/6 PubMed #38900510

Ductal carcinoma in situ and cause-specific mortality among younger and older postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative

Kathy Pan et al., 2024/5 PubMed #38730133

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