From the 1Division of Cardiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Hershey, PA
2Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
3Department of Ob/Gyn, Reading Hospital/Tower Health, Reading, PA
4Department of Ob/Gyn, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
5Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
6Department of Family Medicine, University California San Diego, San Diego, CA
7University of California, San Diego, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, La Jolla, CA
8Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
9Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
10Department of Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
11Departments of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Surgery, Brown University, Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health, Providence, RI
12Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
13Cleveland, OH
14Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
15Department of Cardiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
16Department of Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital/Tower Health, Reading, PA
17Department of Internal Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
Received June 30, 2022; revised and accepted July 18, 2022.
Presentation: The following data has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2022 North American Menopause Society’s annual meeting.
Funding/support: The Women's Health Initiative program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C, and HHSN271201100004C.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: Michelle J. Naughton received funding from the Merck Foundation to her institution (The Ohio State University) for a research project unrelated to this manuscript topic. The other authors have nothing to disclose.
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Address correspondence to: Peter F. Schnatz, DO, FACOG, FACP, NCMP, Reading Hospital/Tower Health, Department of ObGyn–R1, PO Box 16052, Reading, PA 19612-6052. E-mail: [email protected]