Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Even in the animals, we don't have a perimenopause model in rats, which is kind of the standard thing we test in, right?

If they want to use a menopause model, they take out the ovaries.

There's no transition.

So we don't know how these medications are going to affect when we're looking at preclinical data, preclinical meaning animal studies.

When we say that, that's what we mean.

We have a very long way to go.

Doctors are taught to focus.

I was taught, I was taught to focus on hot flashes, on vasomotor symptoms, not the cardiometabolic red flags.

We have to educate all of our clinicians.

Every single clinician who touches a female should have mandatory training in the hormonal transitions that every single woman will go through.

And they're not getting that right now.

We have to mandate this.

Women are prescribed antidepressants instead of being evaluated for hormone changes.

Women are being prescribed statins instead of being evaluated for hormone changes.

Women are being prescribed sedatives for sleeping pills instead of being evaluated for hormone changes.

This has got to stop.

This has got to be mandatory part of how we treat women as we go through this transition in perimenopause and then on into postmenopause.

How does this bias cost us lives?

The number one killer of women in this country is not breast cancer.

It's heart disease.