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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2017 Dec 27;198:108–114. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2017.12.016

Table 3.

Unadjusted total and disease-specific spending for the combined intervention and post-intervention phases (cumulative follow-up) of the Women’s Health Initiative hormone therapy clinical trials (2016 USD)

With Any Spending (%)
Mean Spending
CEE+MPA Placebo CEE +MPA Placebo % Diff P-value
(n=2304) (n=2253)
Total spending 98.3 97.5 $191,313 $190,195 0.6 0.36
Global index spending 43.3 42.7 11,801 13,008 −9.3 0.72
Stroke 21.7 21.3 2,407 2,588 −7.0 0.54
Coronary heart disease 9.6 10.3 1,612 1,467 9.9 0.51
Pulmonary embolism 4.3 4.1 535 313 7.1 0.63
Invasive breast cancer 8.4 6.7 4,115 3,329 23.6 0.028
Endometrial cancer 1.3 2.0 332 948 −65.0 0.10
Colorectal cancer 3.7 4.3 1,036 2,060 −49.7 0.28
Hip fracture 9.5 10.6 1,761 2,299 −23.4 0.19
CEE-Alone
(n=1533)
Placebo
(n=1574)
CEE-Alone Placebo % Dif P-value
Total spending 98.5 97.6 $221,628 $214,830 3.2 0.40
Global index spending 44.3 44.8 12,885 11,140 15.7 0.87
Stroke 24.6 24.3 2,791 3,029 −7.9 0.97
Coronary heart disease 12.2 10.2 2,215 1,448 52.9 0.06
Pulmonary embolism 4.6 5.2 312 387 −19.3 0.44
Invasive breast cancer 6.8 7.6 4,133 2,957 39.8 0.39
Colorectal cancer 4.4 4.5 1,448 1,304 11.0 0.99
Hip fracture 9.7 10.4 1,983 2,013 −1.5 0.60