Collected Dataset / WHISCA_Placebo

The participants in the placebo group were women, with or without a uterus, enrolled in the WHIMS study and the HRT trial of the WHI, who were aged 66 to 84 years at the time of WHISCA enrollment in 1999-2001.

Detailed cognitive function and affect assessments occurred during WHISCA baseline. Tests were chosen based on their sensitivity to age-related and hormone-related changes and included tests on global cognition, verbal knowledge, verbal fluency, figural memory, verbal memory, attention and working memory, spatial ability, fine motor speed and affect.

Anthropometric measurements were done including weight, height and waist circumference. BMI was calculated.

Information was also obtained on age, caloric intake, dieting history, physical activity, race/ethnicity, education, hypertension, smoking, history of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, alcohol intake, and WHI treatment assignment.