Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (2024 Revised and Updated Edition)

by Carol Tavris

After having a hip fracture, women lost an average of 3.75 years of life. Rather dramatically, the researchers calculated that if the women were fifty or younger at the time of the fractures, they would lose 27 percent of their expected remaining years; if they were over eighty, they would lose 38 percent of their expected remaining years.5