Howard BV

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2016-2018
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

ObjectivesPregnancy, 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 pregnanci…

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

BackgroundWhile 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 asses…

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…