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...soon as a women stops using oral contraceptives her risk [of heart disease] is the same as a women who never used oral contraceptives," Stampfer said...
...Stampfer's findings, which are published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, were part of the eight-year Nurse's Health Study conducted by the Medical School. The data were based on bi-annual questionnaires of 120,000 women from 11 states, Stampfer said...
Like smoking, oral contraceptive use might influence blood coagulation, a factor in heart disease, Stampfer said. The contraceptives tend to compound the affects of smoking, a factor in about half of all heart disease cases in women, he said...
...Stampfer's study received praise from a researcher who is also examining the affect of oral contraceptives on heart disease. "His is a very large study, [which was] well conducted. I think it's a pretty convincing study," said Lynn Rosenberg, director of the Slone Epidemiology Unit at Boston University Medical School...
Rosenberg said that the findings of a three-year study at the Slone center were consistent with Stampfer's work. "Our preliminary results are very similar to what Dr. Stampfer will publish tommorrow," she said yesterday...