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Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Body Fat-Reply

Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Body Fat-Reply In Reply. —Ms Blackman has queried the methods used in our article reporting that long-term use of hormone replacement therapy was not associated with the weight gain or central obesity commonly observed in postmenopausal women. We think it is unlikely that our results were attributable to misclassification of obesity based on BMI because there were no significant differences between the intermittent or continuous hormone users compared with the never users in the change in height between baseline and follow-up (P>.10). We also found no differences between hormone users and nonusers in fat mass or lean body mass (data not shown) as assessed by bioelectric impedance. As we noted in our article, survival bias (whereby hormone users gained more weight than nonusers but died prior to follow-up) is unlikely because the women who used hormones lived longer than the untreated women. Although Manson et al1 reported that among middle-aged http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Body Fat-Reply

JAMA , Volume 275 (13) – Apr 3, 1996

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1996.03530370025022
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Abstract

In Reply. —Ms Blackman has queried the methods used in our article reporting that long-term use of hormone replacement therapy was not associated with the weight gain or central obesity commonly observed in postmenopausal women. We think it is unlikely that our results were attributable to misclassification of obesity based on BMI because there were no significant differences between the intermittent or continuous hormone users compared with the never users in the change in height between baseline and follow-up (P>.10). We also found no differences between hormone users and nonusers in fat mass or lean body mass (data not shown) as assessed by bioelectric impedance. As we noted in our article, survival bias (whereby hormone users gained more weight than nonusers but died prior to follow-up) is unlikely because the women who used hormones lived longer than the untreated women. Although Manson et al1 reported that among middle-aged

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Apr 3, 1996

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