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• Long-term followup until women are at least 10<br />

years postmenopausal, so that longer term<br />

effects can be studied, including the natural history<br />

of untreated symptoms<br />

• Studies of different populations worldwide, representing<br />

women from a broader array of racialethnic<br />

and socioeconomic backgrounds<br />

In the field of treatment interventions, there have<br />

been many RCTs of different forms of HRT on<br />

symptoms, and larger studies are in progress. On<br />

the other hand, there is a need for—<br />

• Questionnaires validating phytoestrogen intake<br />

against metabolic measures of metabolites in<br />

different cultural settings before either RCTs or<br />

observational studies of the role of phytoestrogens<br />

can proceed<br />

• Alarger RCT of phytoestrogen supplementations,<br />

including metabolic measures of metabolite<br />

levels<br />

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