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Good grief. You make the claims: > Hormonal birth control boasts clot rates of 1 per 10k This differs depending on the age from my research. Your overall seem
by endisneigh 6y ago
Good grief. You make the claims:
> Hormonal birth control boasts clot rates of 1 per 10k
This differs depending on the age from my research. Your overall seems too high when risk adjusted. I asked you to post your source so we could discuss from the same source. In any case per (https://www.healthline.com/health/birth-control/pulmonary-embolism-birth-control#is-itlikely https://www.healthline.com/health/birth-control/pulmonary-em...):
- Out of every 10,000 women taking birth control pills, 3 to 9 of them will develop a blood clot.
- Out of every 10,000 women who are not pregnant and who do not use birth control pills, 1 to 5 of them will develop a blood clot.
- Out of every 10,000 pregnant women, 5 to 20 of them will develop a blood clot.
- Out of every 10,000 women in the first 12 weeks after giving birth, 40 to 65 of them will develop a blood clot.
In other words, taking birth control pills actually reduces blot clot rates compared to pregnancy, the very thing birth control pills prevent. Your entire point is moot.