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Philadelphia, 21.10.2004
In fact, women on the pill
had surprisingly lower risks of heart disease and stroke
and no increased risk of breast cancer,
contrary to what previous studies have found.
Doctors say the
type of hormones and the stage of life when they're used may
be what makes them helpful at one point and harmful at another.
"We're
still learning more and more about the biology," said one of
the researchers, Dr. Michael Diamond of Wayne State University
in Detroit.
The new findings are from nearly 162,000 participants
in the Women's Health Initiative, the largest women's health
study ever done.
Results were presented on October 20 at an American
Society for Reproductive Medicine conference. About 16 million
U.S. women take birth control pills and hundreds of millions
have used them since their introduction in 1960.
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