Dramatic change in prescribing of hormone replacement therapy in the Netherlands after publication of the Million Women Study: a follow‐up study

In contrast to the release of the WHI study results, publication of the MWS was followed by a dramatic fall in prescribing of HRT in The Netherlands. Despite the new recommendation that long-term HRT use should be discouraged, the proportion of long-term users did not change after the publication of the MWS.