Contraception

Use Of Newer Low-Dose Pill Is Not Related To Increased Risk Of Heart Attack

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 17th, 2001

Current use of oral contraceptives (OCs) is unrelated to an increased risk of a nonfatal first myocardial infarction (MI) among women who do not smoke or who smoke fewer than 25 cigarettes a day, according to an article in the April 23, 2001, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

But researchers did find that current OC use seems to increase the risk among smokers of 25 or more cigarettes per day.

Lynn Rosenberg, ScD, from the Slone Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Public Health, Brookline, Massachusetts, and colleagues assessed whether use of the newer lower-dose OCs increases the risk of MI. Previous studies of OCs...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-05-17)

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