Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital, and the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; Kaiser Permanente, Center for Health Research NW, Portland, Oregon; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; the Divisions of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, and University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee; the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford, California; the Office of Research Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Department of Epidemiology, MedStar Health Research Institute and Georgetown/Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Washington, DC; and UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California.
Corresponding author: Peter F. Schnatz, DO, Departments of OB/GYN & Internal Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Associate Chair & Residency Program Director, The Reading Hospital, Department of OB/GYN—R1, PO Box 16052, Reading, PA 19612-6052; email: [email protected].
The study sponsors had no role in the design of the study; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; the writing of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute or the National Institutes of Health.
Financial Disclosure Dr. LeBlanc has received grants from Amgen Inc, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Merck, and AstraZeneca (unrelated to the current research). Dr. Payne's effort was supported by a National Institutes of Health Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) K12 grant (HD043446). The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
Presented as a poster at the 26th Annual Scientific Meeting of the North American Menopause Society, September 30–October 3, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada.
The research reported in this article was supported by the research budget of the Reading Health System. The research on which this publication is based was supported by R01 HL083326 (to Dr Mackey) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C. Information about the WHI investigators, their academic centers, the program office, and the clinical coordinating center can be found online at: https://www.whi.org/researchers/Documents%20%20Write%20a%20Paper/WHI%20Investigator%20Short%20List.pdf.
For a list of names associated with this study, please see Appendix 1 online at https://links.lww.com/AOG/A892.
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