Word: risk
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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...
...older women who are currently using birth control pills, and especially those who smoke, do face an increased risk, Stampfer said yesterday...
...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...