Women Veterans in the Women's Health Initiative/The Gerontologist (February 2016)

The "Women Veterans in the Women's Health Initiative" supplemental to "The Gerontologist," published in February 2016, includes 13 articles by Department of Veterans Affairs researchers and colleagues comparing aging and mortality differences between veteran and non-veteran women. Research findings were extracted from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a long-term study funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and begun in 1991. Researchers stated that "prior military service identifies a group of women who face special challenges as they grow older."

Studies indicate that many women veterans could benefit from programs promoting physical activity, social connections, healthy weight, smoking cessation as well as evaluation for depression.

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The Gerontologist