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Pill Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke--Study
« on: November 08, 2007, 03:42:05 AM »
Agence France-Presse

CHICAGO -- Women who use oral contraceptives run an increased risk of hardened arteries, a condition that can lead to heart disease and stroke, according to a new study.

Belgian researchers found women who had used the pill were more likely to have plaques, or a buildup of fatty tissue, on their arteries than women who did not use this form of birth control.

The rates of disease increased significantly with long-term usage, jumping 20 to 30 percent with every decade on the birth control.

A certain amount of atherosclerosis typically occurs with age, but complications of the condition can be fatal.

When plaques rupture and break free of the blood vessel wall, they can cause blood clots to form that can block blood flow or break off and travel to another part of the body.

Clots that block arteries leading to the heart or brain can cause heart attacks or strokes.

But the study's authors warned women should not ditch oral contraceptives on the basis of this study alone, noting the findings were preliminary, and there were other ways of lowering the risk of heart disease.

"Women who don't smoke, are physically active, maintain a healthy weight, and healthy lipid levels, reduce the risk of these plaques becoming unstable and breaking off," said Ernst Rietzschel, a cardiologist at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

But "if you can limit your exposure (to the contraceptives), that's great," he added in the study presented Tuesday at a meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida.

Up to 100 million women around the world use synthetic hormones to inhibit ovulation and prevent unwanted pregnancies. Previous research has linked the contraceptives to high blood pressure and blood clots, but this is the first study to suggest a link to atherosclerosis.

"We thought that once you stopped using oral contraceptives, the risk of clotting went away. That would seem to be too simplistic a view now," Rietzschel said.

For his study, Rietzschel screened 1,300 Belgian women between the ages of 35 and 55 for clogged arteries, using ultrasound to look at the femoral artery in the leg, and the carotid artery in the neck.

Some 81 percent of the women had used oral contraceptives at one time or another. The average time spent on the pill was 13 years.

The researchers found a surprising incidence of atherosclerosis among otherwise healthy women who had taken the pill.

Rietzschel said the findings could mean we are on the cusp of an increase in heart disease among women entering their 60s -- the first generation of women to use this form of birth control which first appeared in the 1960s.

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Re: Pill Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke--Study
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2007, 04:00:40 AM »
that has been proven long time ago but what can you do Ginger??? songsongan ug pakaw???

no way, jose. hehehehheh

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« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2007, 04:01:29 AM »
haha unsa mana pakaw Belle?

pills diay ka Belle?

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Re: Pill Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke--Study
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2007, 04:05:08 AM »

sus naa daghan paagi oi..toinks! kabalo na diay ko ani ???

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« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2007, 04:05:56 AM »
hahaha si ginger nani manambag sa mga minyo ron hahaha

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