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Older women and hormone replacement therapy — factors influencing late life initiation
Author(s)	Suzanne G Leveille, Andrea Z LaCroix, Katherine M Newton
Journal title	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 12, December 1997
Pages	pp 1496-1500
Keywords	Older women ; Menopause ; Drugs ; United States of America.
Annotation	Few studies have examined the factors which influence older women, as opposed to middle-aged women, to start using hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A total of 521 women aged between 65 and 80 years participated in the study, and of those 51 had begun taking HRT at age 60 or older and were identified as initiators. Results showed that initiators were similar to non-initiators with respect to age, marital status, education, and health status. Initiators were more likely to have had a hysterectomy at age 60 or later than non-initiators. Sixty-two percent of the non-initiators said they had received no information about the benefits of HRT from their health care providers compared with 18% of initiators. HRT initiation was associated with belief in prevention benefits of HRT for fractures and cardiovascular disease and with reported encouragement from the physician to use HRT. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980316405 A
Classmark	BD: CC:BD: LLD: 7T
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