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Latest Generation Of The Pill Carries Smaller Heart Risk.
2002 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The latest generation of birth control pills appears to carry a smaller risk of heart attack than its predecessor, a Dutch study found.
The study of 1,173 women found that those who took second-generation pills had two and a half times the heart attack risk of other women. But women who took the current, third-generation pills had essentially the same risk as other women, according to findings published December 20, 2001, in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Second-generation pills, which often carry the hormone levonorgestrel, date back to the 1970s. Third-generation contraceptives, which often contain desogestrel or gestodene, became available first in Europe in the mid-1980s and then in the United States, mostly in the 1990s.
About 100 million women around the world take the pill. Some are using the new versions, some the older ones.
Despite the findings, doctors said women should not necessarily switch to the newer pill. For one thing, an ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Latest Generation Of The Pill Carries Smaller Heart Risk.