Re: birth control pills

Study links early birth control pills to Breast Cancer risk for some women
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/10/pill.cancer/




Dr. S. Claiborne Johnston and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed 16 earlier studies and found that women's risk of stroke roughly doubles with use of the low-dose birth control pills typically prescribed today. The risk again doubles with higher doses of estrogen.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/07/05/pill.stroke/index.html




Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
Older generation birth-control pills may have significantly increased Breast Cancer risk among women with a family history of the disease.
In a study of 426 families, investigators found that oral contraceptive use tripled breast cancer risk among women with sisters or mothers who had the disease.
The risk was confined to women who used "the pill" prior to 1975.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/29/birth_control_pills.htm



Birth Control Pills Increase Blood Clot Risk
"Third generation" oral contraceptives are linked to a more than doubled risk of potentially fatal blood clots known as venous thromboembolisms.
The research from Boston University School of Medicine in Massachusetts indicates that oral contraceptives containing desogestrel or gestodene increased the risk of blood clots by a factor of 2.3 compared to older birth control pills containing levonorgestrel.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/birth_control_pills.htm


Birth Control Pills Linked to Thinner Bones
Women who are taking birth control pills have lower bone mineral density (BMD) than women who have never used oral contraceptives.
http://www.mercola.com/2001/nov/24/birth_control.htm




Birth Control Pills Linked to Gallstones


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