The WHI study's press conference announcement prematurely declared increased risks of breast cancer, blood clots, and cardiovascular disease, leading to a drastic decline in HRT use.

“And they did a press conference. Have you ever seen the NIH do a press conference that Matt Lowour talked about or that was made on you, you know, like Good Morning America? Like they did a press conference. I remember I was in medical school at the time. Like I remember sort of you know this happening and they said okay this we had to stop the study early. It is increasing the risk of breast cancer and increasing the rate of risk of blood clots and cardiovascular disease and we have to stop the study and everybody this there's different statistics out there but people will say about 40% maybe of women were on hormone therapy at the time overnight it went it crashed to nothing.”