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[USA], Aug 30 (ANI): Women who have taken oral contraceptives during their teenage, are prone to developing depression as they turn adults, suggested a new study.

Healthcare company Lyndra Therapeutics reported on Tuesday the receipt of USD13m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the planned development of an oral contraceptive that would last for multiple weeks.

The overall conclusion is that oral contraceptive pills do not affect the voice negatively.

University of Aberdeen (Scotland) led the analysis, which looked at data from more than 35,000 women (from an original cohort of 46,000) and identified 4,661 ever-users of combined oral contraceptive who had at least one cancer during more than 884,000 woman-years of observation, and 2,341 women who had never used combined OCs but who had at least one cancer during more than 388,000 years of observation.

KARACHI -- Oral contraceptives increase the risk of ischemic stroke, but this risk is very small among women who do not have other stroke risk factors.

Recent evidence from long-term observations of hundreds of thousands of women, in 10 European countries, clearly demonstrated that the use of oral contraceptives (OCs) reduced mortality by roughly 10%.

* Percentages are based on women who used oral contraceptive pills in the past 4 weeks and had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months, who were asked the question "Still thinking about the past 4 weeks, how many pills that you were supposed to take did you miss?

The first stroke connected to an oral contraceptive was reported in 1962, and the risk for stroke has been debated by researchers for most of the time since.

Fallon had been taking a Pill with a progestogen hormone called levonorgestrel, which the study says is among the lowest risk as a second-generation Pill, but it is still two-and-a-half times more likely to cause clots than not taking any oral contraceptives.

-- Experts have not reached consensus on prescribing oral contraceptives for women with migraine, revealing the need for better studies of stroke risk in these patients, said Dr.

Our study showed correlation of blood pressure with age like a previous study which showed that mean blood pressures adjusted for age were significantly higher among oral contraceptive users than they were among non-users (P less than 0.001 for both systolic and diastolic blood pressures)16.