Blood clots in women taking the Pill 'rare'.Byline: ANI London, August 14 (ANI): The Family Planning Association This article is about the UK charity. For the Hong Kong organisation, see The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong. The Family Planning Association, also known as fpa, is a UK registered charity (number 250187) working to promote sexual health. has claimed that British women are not routinely using the safest brand of the Pill, after two studies found that the risk of blood clots in females using oral contraceptives overall is small. Two separate studies in the British Medical Journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other discovered that some pills were associated with a higher risk of blood clot than others. The first study, headed by Dutch researchers, observed that overall taking the pill was linked with a five-fold increased risk of venous thrombosis, a blood clot that forms in a vein, reports the BBC. But after closer analysis, it was found that blood clots were a rare side-effect of the combined pill, no matter which brand is used. The second study, by Danish experts, also found that contraceptives containing levonorgestrel levonorgestrel /le·vo·nor·ges·trel/ (-nor-jes´trel) the levorotatory form of norgestrel; used as an oral or subdermal contraceptive. le·vo·nor·ges·trel n. were linked with a lower risk. Dr Nick Dunn, a GP and senior lecturer at the University of Southampton In the most recent RAE assessment (2001), it has the only engineering faculty in the country to receive the highest rating (5*) across all disciplines.[3] According to The Times Higher Education Supplement said: "What this says is we should stick to prescribing the well-trusted favourites but the chance of having a blood clot when on the pill are very low anyway." Lynn Hearton, from the Family Planning Association (FPA 1. (hardware) FPA - floating-point accelerator. 2. (programming) FPA - Function Point Analysis. ), said: "Although the combined pill does slightly increase the risk of thrombosis, the risk is still really low. "If any women are worried about the pill they should not stop using it. They should continue taking it and seek advice from a health professional." (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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