Dr. Mary Claire Haver

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.

And most of it is preventable.

And even the calculators, the cardiovascular risk calculators don't take into account menopause in the right way.

They consider you being on HRT a risk of cardiovascular disease when that has never been proven true in a younger patient who was given menopause hormone therapy close to her menopause.

We have so much work to do in how we diagnose, how we evaluate, how we treat.

I had Dr. Andrea Matsumura on, sleep medicine specialist, the screening tool for sleep apnea.

For women, they don't get a point.

If you're female, you don't get a point.

We have sleep apnea.

And so we are missing these diseases that have only really been evaluated in men with many of our screening terms.