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YEAR: 1967

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Influence of pregnancy and oral contraception on the incidence of strokes in

women of childbearing age.

AUTHORS

Jennett WB; Cross JN

SOURCE

Lancet 1: 1019-1023. May 13, 1967.

ABSTRACT

An investigation of 523 carotid strokes occurring from 1956-1965 in Glasgow, Scotland revealed that the incidence of

ischemic strokes among women aged 15-45, 12.4%, was less uncommon than expected. Patients aged 15-45

numbered 146 (29.2%) and 65 of these were women. Since oral contraceptives became widely available, the

proportion of nonpregnant women with carotid ischemia in this age-group has failed to increase: 24 of 26 such

women admitted since 1961 were known never to have taken oral contraceptives. Pathological lesions encountered

in association with oral contraceptives were similar to those found in other women in this age-group; thus there is no

evidence from this study that oral contraceptives are responsible for producing or precipitating cerebral arterial

occlusion in young women. Pregnant and puerperal women accounted for 35.4% of female cases in this age-group

(over 3 times the proportion of pregnant women in the entire female population), and had 2-3 times higher mortality

from strokes than men and nonpregnant women; they accounted for 63.5% of all female deaths from cerebral

ischemia in the age-group. Occlusion of the middle cerebral artery as determined by angiography was found to occur

in 2/3 of pregnant women, twice as often as in other patients; this altered pattern suggests an endocrine influence

on the development of arterial occlusions. This finding also counters the previous assertion that cerebral venous

thrombosis was the major cause of nonhemorrhagic hemiplegia in pregnancy. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT9T 1555-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Influence of pregnancy and oral contraception on the

incidence of strokes in women of childbearing age.", is(are) Jennett WB; Cross JN. The source of this article is

"Lancet 1: 1019-1023. May 13, 1967.". This article was published in 1967 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT9T 1555-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41555

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