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SPECULATIONS ABOUT MORTALITY TRENDS FROM VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE PATTERN OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE
Author(s) -
Vessey Martin P.,
Inman W. H. W.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1973.tb15981.x
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , disease , developed country , venous thromboembolism , population , environmental health , surgery , thrombosis
Summary The mortality trends from venous thromboembolic disease in England and Wales for the years 1953 to 1971 have been reviewed in the light of the results of epidemiological studies of the relationship between oral contraceptives and fatal venous thromboembolism, and the pattern of use of oral contraceptives. It is concluded that the mortality trends are compatible with the findings in the epidemiological studies, but that confirmation of a reduction in risk following the implementation of the recommendation by the Committee on Safety of Drugs in December I969 concerning oral contraceptives containing oestrogens must depend on other studies currently in progress.