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Some contraceptive pills more likely to cause blood clots
Friday October 28, 2011 12:00:14 PM,
IANS
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London:
Certain contraceptive pills are more likely to cause serious blood
clots, new research says.
One such clot is VTE or venous thromboembolism. This forms in the
deep veins in one leg and may travel to the lungs, which can prove
fatal in one out of three people.
Women on pills with one of the newer types of progestogen have
double the risk of developing clots, say researchers led by ?jvind
Lidegaard from the University of Copenhagen.
Previous studies have indicated that the new types of progestogen
hormone might increase the risk of VTE.
Lidegaard and colleagues carried out a large-scale study to assess
its risk for women using oral contraceptives with different
progestogens, according to a statement from the university.
They data came from Danish non-pregnant women aged between 15 and
49 years from January 2001 until December 2009, the British
Medical Journal reports.
The participants had no previous record of either blood clots or
cancer.
In absolute terms, the risk of VTE in current users of newer pills
is about 10 per 10,000 women years.
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