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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: 2) by Magic Oddball on Wednesday March 07 2018, @08:18AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @08:18AM (#648923) Journal

    “I'll say one thing for Catholics: they do have natural rhythm!” (Lord Percy, Black Adder II)

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