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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, March 31,1977
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Health
Women who smoke and
take pill are higher risk
By BRIAN SULLIVAN
AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Women over 40
who use birth control pills and smoke
run a much higher risk of heart attacks
than those who use the pills but don’t
smoke.
Women in their 40s who smoke more
than 15 cigarettes a day die of heart
attacks or blood clots nearly 12 times
more frequently than those who don’t
smoke at all.
These were the major findings of a
new study of mortality risk and oral
contraception that was reported
Tuesday by research analyst Andrudh
K. Jain of The Population Council.
Jain, summing up his study, said:
“The safety of the pill should be con
sidered separately for smokers and
nonsmokers because the effects are
different.
“Women over 40 who take the pill and
do not smoke are not exposed to sub
stantially higher risk of death.”
Jain and others at a news conference
said they did not know what physical
mechanism would account for the
excess mortality among pill users who
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The Jain study found that the annual
mortality rate from heart attacks and
blood clots for women aged 40-44 who
use oral contraceptives but do not
smoke is seven per 100,000 — or roughly
a third the risk of death from
pregnancy and childbirth among
women who use no birth control.
But the pill users in this group who do
smoke face a mortality risk of 59 per
100,000, the Jain study found. And
among heavy smokers — more than 15
cigarettes a day — the risk is 83 per
100,000.
The new data analysis follows recent
studies in Great Britain and the United
States that indicated pill users in
general, and especially those over 40,
faced a much higher risk of death and
both fatal and nonfatal heart attacks
than others.
But those studies lumped together
both smokers and nonsmokers among
pill users and therefore did not take into
account the synergistic effects of pill
and smoking combined. A synergistic
effect is one that is greater than the
simple addition of two factors.
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history’s worst aviation disaster. Wreckage from the collision, in which some 575 persons
died, is still on the runway, background. (AP)
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Secession declined
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)
— West Virginia got its start by
seceding from Virginia. So it
can understand the plight of
Nantucket and Martha’s Vine
yard, two islands squabbling
with the mainland of Massachu
setts and making noises about
leaving that commonwealth.
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But sympathy or no, it was too
much when six legislators
asked the House of Delegates to
invite the feisty New Englan
ders to make their dots of land
in the Atlantic part of this state
in the Appalachian hills.
Without a roll call, the House
rejected their resolution Tues
day.
