Contraceptive Birth Control Pills Double Risk Of Blood Clot: The older-generation pill that contains an estrogen and the progestin hormone levonorgestrel roughly doubled the risk compared to women not on any hormonal birth control.
The newer kinds of pills, which contain the progestin hormones drospirenone, desogestrel, or gestodene along with estrogen, doubled the risk again, making it six to seven times as high as women who weren't using hormonal forms of birth control. On average, roughly 10 out of 10,000 women taking newer kinds of birth control pills had venous thromboembolism within a year.
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