From the 1Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 2Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 3Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 4Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; 5Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 6The North American Menopause Society, Mayfield Heights, OH; 7University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA; 8University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; 9Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR;10Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and 11Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
Received July 18, 2014; revised and accepted August 27, 2014.
The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; in the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Funding/support: The project described was funded by the National Center for Research Resources (grant K23RR024685) and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (grant UL1TR000083). The Women’s Health Initiative program was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C).
Clinical trial registration: NCT00000611 (ClinicalTrials.gov).
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: K.E.E. serves as consultant for a data monitoring committee at Merck Sharp and Dohme. J.T.S. received research grant funding from Bone Ultrasound Finland from September 2013 through July 2014. Other financial activities are not related to the submitted work.
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Address correspondence to: Margaret Lee Gourlay, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina, Aycock Bldg, Manning Dr, CB 7595, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7595. E-mail: [email protected]
