Howard BV

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
rct 2018
Effects of reproductive period duration and number of pregnancies on midlife ECG indices: a secondary analysis from the Women's Health Initiative Clinical Trial
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019129

OBJECTIVES: Pregnancy, menses and menopause are related to fluctuations in endogenous sex hormones in women, which cumulatively may alter cardiac electrical conduction. Therefore, we sought to study the association between number of pregnan…

rct 2016
Continuous Combined Estrogen Plus Progestin and Endometrial Cancer: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial
Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·doi:10.1093/jnci/djv350

BACKGROUND: While progestin addition to estrogen mitigates endometrial cancer risk, the magnitude of the effect on incidence, specific endometrial cancer histologies, and endometrial cancer mortality remains unsettled. These issues were ass…

observational 2016
Reproductive Risk Factors and Coronary Heart Disease in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study.
Circulation ·doi:10.1161/circulationaha.115.017854

BackgroundReproductive factors provide an early window into a woman's coronary heart disease (CHD) risk; however, their contribution to CHD risk stratification is uncertain.Methods and resultsIn the Women's Health Initiative Observational S…