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- Title
Pill-Related Stroke Risk Is Low, Especially if Users Lack Other Risk Factors.
- Authors
Hollander, D.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the link between oral contraceptives and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The risk of stroke associated with the use of combined oral contraceptives by women in both developed and developing countries is largely determined by users' other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Pill users who are younger than 35, do not smoke and have no history of hypertension have a very low risk of stroke, but their counterparts who are older, smoke or have had high blood pressure have a markedly higher risk. The risk of hemorrhagic stroke in particular does not appear to increase among users younger than 35. The analyses of the risk of ischemic stroke (a syndrome caused by abnormal blood clotting in the arteries of the brain) were based on 697 stroke patients and 1,952 controls. Among stroke patients, 37 percent in Europe and 20 percent in developing countries were using oral contraceptives; among controls, the proportions using the pill were 23 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
- Subjects
EUROPE; ORAL contraceptives; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; HYPERTENSION; PATIENTS; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2953373