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Estetrol for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women: The design of the E4COMFORT I and II trials

2025· article· en· W4416408974 on OpenAlexaff
Nick Panay, Tommaso Simoncini, Mélanie Taziaux, Céline Bouchard, Amanda Black, Ekta Kapoor, Wulf H. Utian, Jean‐Michel Foidart, Rogerio A. Løbo

Bibliographic record

VenueMaturitas · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMenopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaCanadian Women's Health Network
FundersAstellas PharmaShionogiNovo NordiskGedeon RichterMylanIntuitive SurgicalPfizer
KeywordsVasomotorClinical trialPostmenopausal womenFood and drug administrationEndometrial cancerMenopause

Abstract

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Estetrol is a natural estrogen with a favorable safety profile, showing minimal effects on liver proteins, blood clotting, and breast tissue, which may reduce the risks of blood clots and cardiovascular disease. This review presents the profile of estetrol in support of the rationale of two pivotal phase 3 clinical trials, E4COMFORT I and E4COMFORT II, as well as the design of those. E4COMFORT I and II are aimed at assessing the efficacy and safety of estetrol in the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women. The E4COMFORT I and II trials were divided into an efficacy part (arms 1-3) and a safety part (arm 4). Efficacy was evaluated through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study examining two doses of estetrol (15 mg and 20 mg) in postmenopausal participants, both hysterectomized and non-hysterectomized, who experienced 7 or more moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms per day (or 50 or more per week). To comply with Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency guidelines for long-term safety assessments in both groups, these trials evaluated the overall and endometrial safety of unopposed estetrol and of estetrol combined with natural progesterone. The total enrolment across the E4COMFORT I and II trials was 2576 participants. The results of these trials are expected to give a thorough understanding of estetrol 's potential as a new, distinctive treatment option for women with postmenopausal symptoms. CLINICALTRIALS REGISTRATION: NCT04209543 and NCT04090957.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.335
Threshold uncertainty score0.282

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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