After the crying of scientists and experts, federal officials said on Thursday that they will restore funds for women’s health initiatives, one of the largest and longest studies of women’s health.
Whi and the results of its random control test have changed medical practices and helps to form clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.
Emily G. Hilliard, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said, “This study greatly contributes to contributing to our understanding of women’s health.
“We are now trying to completely restore the funds for these essential research efforts. The National Institute of Health is devoted to developing public health through strict gold standard studies, and we are taking immediate measures to ensure the continuity of this study.”
that Whi started in the 1990s More than 160,000 participants were registered nationwide when there were few women in clinical research. It continues to follow about 42,000 women. Data tracking on cardiovascular disease and agingWeakness, loss of vision and mental health.
Researchers wanted to use the results to maintain mobility and cognitive function, slow memory losses, detect cancer early and predict the risk of other diseases.
HHS informed the research team leaders that the Clinical Coordinating Center, headquartered at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, will be funded by January 2026, but will terminate the WHI regional center in September.
Senator Patty Murray of the Washington Democratic Party said that the closure of the trial is “a deadly loss of women’s health research.”
Murray said that initiatives not only led to the main development of women’s health, but also opened the way for a generation of researchers who focused on women’s health.
This comfort included several randomized control tests and contributed to more than 2,000 research papers. However, the investigators said that the elderly women who combined estrogen and progestin had a small but significant increase in breast cancer.
Until then, hormone replacement therapy is widely known to protect women from cardiovascular disease. However, according to the test, even if the hormonal combination decreases in the rectal cancer and hip hip fractures, women have found a high risk of heart attack, stroke and blood clots.
Dr. Joann Manson, one of the long -term principal investigators of the study, and a medical professor at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, urged the announcement of “heartbreaking”.
She’s first decision to cut funds was the US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy JR. about the importance of reducing chronic diseases in the United States.
“There is no better example of the scientific impact of research on prevention of chronic diseases.”
Learning lesson Hormonal research has reduced the cost of huge costs. In the cost of health care, the researchers reached about $ 35 billion between 2003 and 2012, and a study found that the number of cases of blocked cancer and cardiovascular disease was found. $ 140 per dollar spent on Whi has been saved.
Random tests were carried out when we looked at the effects of low -fat diets with many fruits and vegetables. The researchers first found a decrease in ovarian cancer, but according to the long -term tracking observation, diets also reduced the deaths of breast cancer.
Another study of calcium and vitamin D found that supplements provided the benefits of preserving bone masses and preventing hip hip fractures of the elderly, but did not prevent other fractures or colon cancer.
The findings have influenced medical guidelines, and we do not recommend all women to take supplements regularly.
Participants in Initives have now been 78 to 108 years old, and some scientists admit that there is a debate to be discussed. But careful plans are generally provided to finish large and extensive research.
“We still have a lot of things to learn,” said Garnet Anderson, senior vice president and director of the Department of Public Health Science at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
“No one knows 13,000 women over 90 years old. What is the need for health? How to live a long and healthy life?” She said. “We want to know the secret of success for healthy aging.”
One reason for this study began in the 1990s, because there is a lack of information on women’s health and lack of research on clinical recommendations, the Fred Hutch Cancer Center leads the cancer prevention program and is chairman of the Whi Steering Committee.
“Women are half of the population, but they are not included in the study, but they were mostly men, and the result was outside the woman.”
