The Women's Health Initiative study results were misunderstood and misinterpreted, leading to a decline in HRT prescription.

“still believe that the sort of mainstream medical community has committed a gross Injustice over the past 20 years in the misinterpretation of the women's health initiative and the subsequent demonization of hormones in per menopausal and postmenopausal therapy for women and as a result of that many women have been significantly harmed”

“you know one of the great tragedies of the past 25 years is you know this very popular study done the Women's Health Initiative which was done published in the early part of the uh of the century and and really came to in my view a very erroneous conclusion which basically scared an entire generation of Physicians and women away from HRT”

“which was done uh published in the early part of the uh of the century and and really came to in my view a very erroneous conclusion which basically scared an entire generation of Physicians and women away from HRT”

“They misinterpreted the data so drastically and scared everybody so with so much fear that you actually have an entire generation that has forgotten how to prescribe hormone therapy.”

“women, unfortunately, are still struggling under the dark cloud of the women's health initiative, which was, you know, apocryphal. And I I mean, it just, you know, no one's undone it.”