Word: orals
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...oral contraceptives can increase slightly the risk of heart disease in some older women, according to a study by Harvard researchers published today...
Women who use oral contraceptives when they are young do not face increased risk of heart disease after they stop taking the pill, said Meir J. Stampfer, an associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health and one of the researchers...
...soon as a women stops using oral contraceptives her risk [of heart disease] is the same as a women who never used oral contraceptives," Stampfer said...
...Women who currently use oral contraceptives are at slightly higher risk...
Like smoking, oral contraceptive use might influence blood coagulation, a factor in heart disease, Stampfer said. The contraceptives tend to compound the affects of smoking, a factor in about half of all heart disease cases in women, he said...