Hormone Replacement Therapy: Knowledge and Use in the United States

While much has been written about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), there is much less documentation of its actual use in the U.S. This chartbook offers researchers, healthcare professionals, and policy makers an inventory of information available about HRT use from recent nationally representative data collected by NCHS. The topics include:

- The patterns of HRT use
- Factors associated with HRT use�- Characteristics of HRT users- 000--0saf
- Characteristics of HRT users
- The physician’s role in HRT use

Each of the NCHS surveys used include different information regarding HRT
usage. Thus, the content of the survey dictated which data source to use to address a particular question. Because one of the surveys used collected data periodically rather than annually, use of the most recent data for each question did not result in answers that all came from the same time period.