Human Reproduction, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1-3,
January 2003
© 2003 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
Editorial |
Time to reflect on the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study
Editor-in-Chief
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With 25 years experience of the field of reproductive medicine I can think of no time in my career that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been free of controversy. At times the HRT debate has been overshadowed by other issues in the reproductive medicine field, usually in association with developments in assisted reproduction, but throughout my career I have noted unusual polarization of opinion concerning HRT. It is a field of therapeutics on which the views can transcend the usual basis on which we judge medicines. Most medicines are judged on the basis of the best objective data and their clinical role determined by that evidence without emotion coming into play. With HRT, however, there appears to be, for many, an almost partisan support or opposition to HRT.
In the late 1970s working in the menopause clinic at Glasgow Western Infirmary in the adjacent bay to a cardiovascular clinic, the
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