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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @12:11PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @12:11PM (#648958)

    Mary and Joseph only had one documented kid.

    (How many kids do the Osbournes have?)

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Freeman on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:01PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:01PM (#649069) Journal

    Matthew 13:55-56
    55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
    56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

    He had siblings. They just aren't mentioned much. I've attended many a church service and heard many sermons. For the life of me, I can't remember a single one that focused on the fact that he had brothers and sisters.

    --
    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"