I think you have done your readers and their patients a disservice by publishing the results of the Women's Health Initiative study in terms of relative rather than absolute risk.1 Not including the denominator makes it difficult for anyone to assess the meaning of these results. Instead of discussing a 41% increase in strokes, a 26% increase in breast cancer, a 37% reduction in colorectal cancer and a 33% reduction in hip fractures, as was done in the CMAJ piece,1 why not present the results in terms of absolute excess risk or absolute risk reduction? The abstract of the JAMA article summarizing the results of the original study2 does just that, stating that there is an absolute risk of 8 more strokes, 8 more invasive breast cancers, 6 fewer colorectal cancers and 5 fewer hip fractures per 10 000 person-years.