Word: bloodclot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is especially true of thromboembolic (traveling bloodclot) disorders. According to the Government's admittedly incomplete data on annual death causes, roughly 17 out of every 1,000,000 women die of such disorders. The researchers had no better base to go on; they also could only assume that pill-taking women have at least the same thromboembolic disease incidence as the general population. As a result, they multiplied 17 by 5 and came to the conclusion that approximately 85 of the 5,000,000 pill-taking women should have died in 1965 from the effects of traveling clots...