Delta4Embassy
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Are you going to post the link for the stroke risk or are you going to pretend it doesn't exist?Is that the main reason why women take birth control? Also, does viagra and penis pumps increase stroke risk cause cancer etc?
Birth-control pills reduce some kind of cancers, but increase others:
* A number of studies suggest that current use of oral contraceptives (birth control pills) appears to slightly increase the risk of breast cancer, especially among younger women. However, the risk level goes back to normal 10 years or more after discontinuing oral contraceptive use.
* Women who use oral contraceptives have reduced risks of ovarian and endometrial cancer. This protective effect increases with the length of time oral contraceptives are used.
* Oral contraceptive use is associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer; however, this increased risk may be because sexually active women have a higher risk of becoming infected with human papillomavirus, which causes virtually all cervical cancers.
* Women who take oral contraceptives have an increased risk of benign liver tumors, but the relationship between oral contraceptive use and malignant liver tumors is less clear.
Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute
"Smoking and oral contraceptives increase women's risk for stroke"
Smoking and oral contraceptives increase women's risk for stroke
"Low-Dose Estrogen Pill Safer
Researchers also confirmed that new-generation, low-dose estrogen oral birth control is far safer than early versions of the pill.
"Risk today is significantly lower than it was decades ago in the era of high-dose pills," says University of Copenhagen professor Ojvind Lidegaard, MD, who led the research.
Hormonal contraceptives that did not contain estrogen, such as the progestin-only IUD sold in the U.S. as Mirena, were not found to raise the risk for blood clot-related heart attack and strokes at all."
Study: Heart Attack, Stroke Risk Low with Birth Control Pills
(Wasn't Mirena recalled? ...Googling it, yes it was.)
Mirena Recall - Side Effects, Adverse Events & Bayer Conduct
"Birth Control Pills: Women who take even a low-estrogen birth control pill may be twice as likely to have a stroke than those who dont and the risk may increase if other risk factors are present."
Hidden Stroke Risk Factors for Women
("twice a slikely" is a loaded phrase, if your chance is just 1 in 10,000, twice as likely is just 1 in 5,000.