Did you ever use any female hormones like estrogen (Premarin) or progesterone (Provera)?These might be pills, skin patches, implants, creams, suppositories, shots, or birth control pills. (This does not include birth control pills you used before you were 50.)

Have you used female hormones in the last 3 months?

Computed from Form 2, questions 17 and 17.1.  Combines questions 17 and 17.1 into a three category HRT use variable (never, past, current).

In the past year, did you use any of the following female hormones - ESTROGEN,PROGESTERONE (also called PROGESTIN), or TESTOSTERONE - that were prescribed by a doctor? (This may have been in the form of a pill; skin patch; shot; cream; vaginal ring, pellet, or suppository; or bioidentical compound.)

In the past year, did you use any "natural" hormones that you can get without a doctor's prescription? These are usually made from plants or herbs and often obtained from health food stores or by mail order. They may be in the form of a pill, vaginal cream or suppository, skin cream, or soy-enriched foods.

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Wild yam cream

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Wild yam pills

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Progesterone cream

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Progesterone suppositories

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): DHEA pills (dehyroepiandrosterone)

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Phytoestrogen pills or powder (soy or flax)

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Phytoestrogen creams (soy or flax)

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Phytoestrogen-enriched foods (tofu, soybeans)

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Other

In the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Don't know

In the past year, did you use any female hormones (ESTROGEN or PROGESTERONE [also called PROGESTIN]) that were prescribed by a doctor? (These may have been in the form of a pill, skin patch, shot, cream, vaginal ring or suppository, or bio-identical compound.)

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): To treat symptoms

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): To look better

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): To feel better

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): To treat or prevent osteoporosis

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): To treat or prevent other diseases

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): Advice from family or friend

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): Advice from health care provider

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): Information on the Internet (World Wide Web)

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): Results from saliva, urine, or blood test

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): Information in the media (for example, newspaper, magazine, or television)

What were your reasons for taking this hormone (Estrogen or Progesterone) prescription? (Mark all that apply.): Other reason

In the past year, did you use female hormones PILLS or PATCHES prescribed by a doctor containing both ESTROGEN and PROGESTERONE (PROGESTIN) COMBINED in the same pill, patch, package (for example, Prempro, Premphase), vaginal ring, or bio-identical compound? (Do not include the use of two separate estrogen or progesterone pills taken at the same time.)

Did you use an Estrogen and Progesterone pill combination?

For how many months did you use the Estrogen and Progesterone pill combination?

Did you use an Estrogen and Progesterone patch combination?

For how many months did you use the Estrogen and Progesterone patch combination?

Did you use some other Estrogen and Progesterone combination that was not a pill or patch?

For how many months did you use the other (not pill or patch) Estrogen and Progesterone combination?

In the past year, did you use female hormone PILLS prescribed by a doctor containing both ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE COMBINED in the same pill (for example, Estratest)?

In the past year, how many months did you use COMBINED female hormone pills containing both ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE?

In the past year, what type of COMBINED ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE pills did you use longest?

In the past year, did you use any ESTROGEN that was prescribed by a doctor (other than the combinations described in Questions 5 and 6)? (These may have been in the form of a pill, skin patch, shot, skin cream, bio-identical compound, or vaginal cream, ring, tablet, or suppository.)

Did you use an oral estrogen pill that you take by mouth?

For how many months did you use the oral estrogen pills?

What kind of oral estrogen pills did you take? (Mark the one used the longest if you used more than one kind.)

For how many months did you use the estrogen skin patch?

For how many months did you use the estrogen skin cream?

For how many months did you have the estrogen shots?

Did you use an estrogen vaginal cream, ring, capsule, or suppository?

For how many months did you use any of these vaginal forms of estrogen: cream, ring, capsule, suppository?

In the past year, did you use any PROGESTERONE OR PROGESTIN that was prescribed by a doctor (other than the combinations described in Question 5)? (These may have been in the form of a pill, skin cream, shot, vaginal cream, vaginal capsule or suppository, IUD [intra-uterine device], or bio-identical compound.)

Did you use a progesterone or progestin pill?

For how many months did you use the progesterone or progestin pill?

What kind of progesterone or progestin pill did you take?

How many days per month did you use a progesterone or progestin pill?

Did you use a progesterone or progestin skin cream?

For how many months did you use the progesterone or progestin skin cream?

Did you have progesterone or progestin shots?

For how many months did you have progesterone or progestin shots?

Did you use a progesterone or progestin vaginal cream or vaginal capsule?

For how many months did you use the progesterone or progestin vaginal cream or vaginal capsule?

Did you se an intrauterine progestin device (IUD)?

For how many moths did you use the progestin IUD?

Computed from form 150 questions 4, 5, 6, 7, 7.1, and 7.2

Computed from form 150 questions 4, 5, 8, and 8.1

Computed from variables "Estrogen use last year" and "Progesterone use last year".

In the past 2 years, did you use any "natural" hormones that you can get without a doctor's prescription? They may be in the form of a pill, vaginal cream or suppository, or skin cream.

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Wild yam or progesterone creams

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Wild yam pills

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Progesterone suppositories

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? DHEA (dehydroepiandosterone) pills

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Phytoestrogen pills (soy or flax)

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Phystoestrogen creams (soy or flax)

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Phytoestrogen containing foods (tofu, soybeans)

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Used other natural hormones

In the past 2 years, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? Don't know

In the past 2 years, did you use female hormones (ESTROGEN or PROGESTERONE) that were prescibed by a doctor?  (This may have been in the form of a pill, skin patch, shot, or vaginal cream or suppository.)

In the past 2 years, did you use female hormone PILLS prescibed by a doctor which contained both ESTROGEN and progestin (PROGESTERONE) COMBINED in the same pill or package (for example Prempro, Premphase)?

In the past 2 years, how many months did you use COMBINED female hormone PILLS which contained both ESTROGEN and PROGESTIN?

In the past 2 years, did you use female hormone PILLS prescibed by a doctor which contained both ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE COMBINED in the same pill (for example, Estratest)?

In the past 2 years, how many months did you use COMBINED female hormone pills which contained both ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE?

In the past 2 years, what type of COMBINED ESTROGEN and TESTOSTERONE pill did you use the longest?

In the past 2 years, did you use ESTROGEN PILLS which were prescibed by a doctor (for example, Premarin, Estrace, Ogen)?  (Do not include the combined pill of estrogen and progestin or the combined pill of estrogen and testosterone.)

In the past 2 years, how many months did you use ESTROGEN PILLS?

In the past 2 years, when you were using ESTROGEN pills, what was the average number of days each month you used the pills?

In the past 2 years, what type of ESTROGEN pill did you use the longest?

What dose did you usually take each day?  (Mark one.  If you regularly take more than one dose, mark the lowest dose.)

In the past 2 years, did you take shots containing the hormone ESTROGEN?

In the past 2 years, how many months did you take the shots?  (Count each shot as one month.)

In the past 2 years, did you use a vaginal cream or suppository containing ESTROGEN which was prescribed by a doctor?

In the past 2 years, how many months did you use the vaginal cream or suppository?

In the past 2 years, did you use a SKIN PATCH containing the hormone ESTROGEN with or without PROGESTERONE (for example, Estraderm, Climera, Vivelle)?

In the past 2 years, how many months did you use the patch?

In the past 2 years, what type of patch did you use the longest?

What dose of ESTROGEN was in the skin patch you usually used?

What was the average number of times each week that you changed your skin patch?

In the past 2 years, did you use the female hormone PILL called PROGESTERONE or progestin (for example, Provera, Cycrin, Amen, Megace)?  (Do not include the combined pill of estrogen and progestin.)

In the past 2 years, how many months did you use PROGESTERONE or PROGESTIN pills?

In the past 2 years, when you were using PROGESTERONE or PROGESTIN pills, what was the average number of days each month you used the pills?

id	Variable	Description	Collected	File
idHORM	VariableFemale hormones ever	DescriptionDid you ever use any female hormones like estrogen (Premarin) or progesterone (Provera)?These might be pills, skin patches, implants, creams, suppositories, shots, or birth control pills. (This does not include birth control pills you used before you were 50.) ^*Not collected on all versions of Form 2.	CollectedBaseline	FileForm 2 - Eligibility Screening
idHORMNW	VariableFemale hormones now	DescriptionAre you using female hormones now? ^*Sub-question of F2 V3 Q17 "Female hormones ever". Not collected on all versions of Form 2.	CollectedBaseline	FileForm 2 - Eligibility Screening
idHORM3M	VariableFemale hormones last 3 months	DescriptionHave you used female hormones in the last 3 months? ^*Sub-question of F2 V3 Q17 "Female hormones ever". Sub-question of F2 V3 Q17.1 "Female hormones now". Not collected on all versions of Form 2.	CollectedBaseline	FileForm 2 - Eligibility Screening
idHORMSTAT	VariableHRT use ever	DescriptionComputed from Form 2, questions 17 and 17.1. Combines questions 17 and 17.1 into a three category HRT use variable (never, past, current).	CollectedBaseline	FileForm 2 - Eligibility Screening
idHRPST1YR	VariableUsed female hormones in past year	DescriptionIn the past year, did you use any of the following female hormones - ESTROGEN,PROGESTERONE (also called PROGESTIN), or TESTOSTERONE - that were prescribed by a doctor? (This may have been in the form of a pill; skin patch; shot; cream; vaginal ring, pellet, or suppository; or bioidentical compound.)	CollectedExt2	FileForm 155 - Lifestyle Questionnaire
idNATHOR_X	VariableUsed non-prescription natural hormones	DescriptionIn the past year, did you use any "natural" hormones that you can get without a doctor's prescription? These are usually made from plants or herbs and often obtained from health food stores or by mail order. They may be in the form of a pill, vaginal cream or suppository, skin cream, or soy-enriched foods.	CollectedExt1	FileForm 150 - Hormone Use Update WHI Extension
idYAMCRM_X	VariableNatural - Wild yam cream	DescriptionIn the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Wild yam cream ^*Sub-question of F150 V9 Q3 "Used non-prescription natural hormones"	CollectedExt1	FileForm 150 - Hormone Use Update WHI Extension
idYAMPLS_X	VariableNatural - Wild yam pills	DescriptionIn the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Wild yam pills ^*Sub-question of F150 V9 Q3 "Used non-prescription natural hormones"	CollectedExt1	FileForm 150 - Hormone Use Update WHI Extension
idPRGCRM_X	VariableNatural - Progesterone cream	DescriptionIn the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Progesterone cream ^*Sub-question of F150 V9 Q3 "Used non-prescription natural hormones"	CollectedExt1	FileForm 150 - Hormone Use Update WHI Extension
idPRGSUP_X	VariableNatural - Progesterone suppositories	DescriptionIn the past year, what types of "natural" hormones have you used? (Do not include hormone preparations that need a doctor's prescription.) (Mark all that apply.): Progesterone suppositories ^*Sub-question of F150 V9 Q3 "Used non-prescription natural hormones"	CollectedExt1	FileForm 150 - Hormone Use Update WHI Extension

Variables related to Post-menopausal Hormone use