The misinterpretation of the Women's Health Initiative study results remains one of the greatest missteps in modern medicine and the medical press.

“I would argue and I make this point to Joanne that the misinterpretation of the Women's Health Initiative some 20 years ago may be one of the greatest missteps of medicine and by extension the medical press in the past several decades”

The Women's Health Initiative correctly identified that hormone therapy was not beneficial for the prevention of chronic disease in older women, but its results were inappropriately extrapolated to yo

“the Whi showed that when hormone therapy is used for prevention of chronic disease purposes in women who have average age of 63 in women in mid to later menopause on average the risks outweigh the benefits so it was a favorable change but the unfavorable change in clinical practice practice was that”