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YEAR: 2006

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Should coagulation tests be used to determine which oral contraceptive users

have an increased risk of thrombophlebitis?

AUTHORS

Comp PC

SOURCE

Contraception. 2006;73:4-5.

ABSTRACT

The increased risk of venous thrombosis in women taking oral contraceptives (OCs) has been recognized since the

early 1960s. Finding hematologic links between OC use and thrombosis is an area of active investigation. Oral

contraceptives elevate the plasma levels of some blood clotting factors, but only to a modest degree and the levels

still remain in the normal range. However, some degree of risk of thrombosis may now be ascribed to these relatively

minor changes. Changes also occur in the natural anticoagulant system of proteins in the blood whose job it is to

prevent venous thrombosis. One of the acquired changes in blood clotting caused by OCs resembles the laboratory

findings associated with the most common inherited risk factor for thrombosis, factor V Leiden. A considerable

percentage of women are born with inherited risk factors favoring thrombosis; the additive effect of OCs plus an

existing inherited risk factor has the potential to trigger an event of venous thrombosis. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT1T 47-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Should coagulation tests be used to determine which oral

contraceptive users have an increased risk of thrombophlebitis?", is(are) Comp PC. The source of this article is

"Contraception. 2006;73:4-5.". This article was published in 2006 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT1T 47-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 47

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