Oral hormone therapy pills double clot risk: study

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"Menopausal women who take hormone-replacement therapy pills more than double their risk of developing a potentially fatal blood clot, French researchers said on Friday.

The review of 17 studies suggested that the risk was also significantly higher during the first year of treatment, they reported in the British Medical Journal.

Blood clots in the arteries are a common cause of heart attacks and strokes. Vein blood clots can kill if they move through the body to the lungs.

'This meta-analysis ... showed that current use of oral oestrogen increases the risk of (blood clots) by two-fold to three-fold,' Pierre-Yves Scarabin and Marianne Canonico of the Paul Brousse Hospital in France wrote."

There is no hormone treatment for your stupidity.