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Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke

posted by takyon on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the stroke-of-**** dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Oral contraceptives increase the risk of ischemic stroke, but this risk is very small among women who do not have other stroke risk factors, according to a Jan. 3, 2018 paper in the journal MedLink Neurology by Loyola Medicine stroke specialists.

Birth control pills do not increase the risk of hemorrhagic strokes, wrote neurologists Sarkis Morales-Vidal, MD, and José Biller, MD. Ischemic strokes, which account for about 85 percent of all strokes, are caused by blood clots. Hemorrhagic strokes are caused by bleeding in the brain.

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain why oral contraceptives increase stroke risk, including by raising blood pressure and by making blood hypercoagulable (more likely to clot).

Hormonal Contraception and Stroke

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:24AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:24AM (#648871) Journal

    The pro-coagulant effects of hormonal BC have been known about for decades. Estrogen-containing drugs of all stripes have big fat warnings on them not to take them if you've ever had DVT/PE or are at high risk for blood clots, e.g., if you have Factor V Leiden. The article, which is a paywalled journal article, has a cite dated *1962* for the love of Sappho!

    What's more interesting is how resistant doctors were to warning patients about these things early on, and exactly who these drugs were being tested on...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday March 07 2018, @02:34PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 07 2018, @02:34PM (#648997) Journal

    ... for the love of Sappho!

    For the life of me I can't imagine why a lesbian's love has to be invoked in the context of birth control. (grin)

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @08:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @08:50PM (#649165)

    When I was a young man I used to rely on Mother Nature's very own contraceptives, namely garlic, onions and an overtly cynical attitude fueled by unhealthy and anti-social quantities of alcohol.