PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Van Horn, Linda
AU  - Manson, JoAnn E.
TI  - The Women’s Health Initiative: Implications for clinicians
DP  - 2008 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 385--390
VI  - 75
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/5/385.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/5/385.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2008 May 01; 75
AB  - The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the largest and longest randomized controlled study to date of the effect of dietary change on disease outcomes in postmenopausal women, failed to show that a low-fat diet prevents breast cancer, colon cancer, or cardiovascular disease. However, as the authors point out, the WHI Extension Study provides opportunities to assess whether nearly significant differences in breast cancer rates at 8 years become significant after 10 years of follow-up.