Widespread avoidance of HRT following the Women's Health Initiative study has contributed to an epidemic of osteopenia and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

“I still remain somewhat sad because I think there's a Lost Generation of women I think there's 20 years of women who entered menopause who were denied HRT due to the ignorance of their Physicians and the irresponsibility of the media and I look at women like my mother and my mother-in-law who were entering menopause just as the Whi was coming to its conclusion and who suffered unnecessarily and I don't know how many millions of women suffered unnecessarily”

“and as a result of that not only has there been an unnecessary abundance of symptoms associated with menopause but I but I think the real hidden tragedy has been the larger epidemic of of osteopenia and osteoporos is in a in a group of women who may have otherwise received estrogen as they as they went through menopause”

“calculate the number of lives that were lost, the amount of disability that was incurred because to your point, even if you don't die from a hip fracture, 50% of survivors never regain the same level of function.”

“calculate for me or estimate for me the number of women who were deprived of HRT because of the WHI and calculate the excess mortality that was achieved through that injustice through hip fractures, cardiovascular disease.”

“we've even come up with some calculations for how many lives have been unnecessarily lost as a result of that”