The association between weight-promoting medication use and weight gain in postmenopausal women: findings from the Women's Health Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With the rise in obesity, there has been a concomitant increase in prescription medications associated with weight gain. The objective of this study is to quantify the magnitude of association between putative weight-promoting medications and 3-year weight change in a diverse cohort of postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI).

Methods

This is a prospective observational cohort study, considering 40 sites in the WHI and a cohort of seventy six thousand two hundred fifty-two postmenopausal women aged 50-79 years, with weight measured at both baseline and 3 years, in the WHI-Observational Study. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were measured at baseline and 3 years. An in-clinic medication inventory identified prescribed medication

SUBMITTER: Stanford FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9242823 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature