Hormone Therapy vs Blood Pressure for Heart Risk #shorts

According to literature, maybe 140,000 women have died prematurely from lack of access to hormone replacement therapy. Between 40 and 70 million women were undertreated. Well, how can this be? Why is this? Well, according to the literature, hormone replacement therapy lowers your risk for heart disease about 50% and your risk of dementia about 35%. So to put this in perspective, if you're seeing a cardiologist, for example, and you're a female and you have cholesterol, blood pressure, and you're in the menopause age, postmenopausal age, which one has the biggest impact on your risk for heart disease? Treating your hypertension will lower your risk maybe 38%. Hormone replacement, 50%. So all of a sudden using hormone replacement is more impactful on your risk for heart disease than treating your blood pressure.