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Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke

posted by takyon on Wednesday March 07 2018, @04:15AM   
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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• Re:easy to avoid the problem Re:easy to avoid the problem (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:18AM (2 children)

  by SomeGuy (5632) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:18AM (#648892)

  There is no such thing as god, obviously, but most religions encourage their members to reproduce like rats in order to increase that religion's numbers/power/monies. It is that simple.

  Just a friendly reminder: please have your humans spayed or neutered!

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• Re:easy to avoid the problem Re:easy to avoid the problem (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:40AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:40AM (#648896)

  The life of a parent: spend 20 years telling your children to not have sex or children, no matter what. Then the next 20 years telling them to have sex and children, no matter what.

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  • Re:easy to avoid the problem (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @12:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @12:07PM (#648954)

    The life of a parent of Millennials :- spending that second 20 years being told how impossible it is to have sex and children when you're in the next bedroom.

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