Using NSAIDs and hormonal birth control together increased the overall risk of blood clots in women in the study, but the researchers stressed that the overall risk is still low.
Women who use some types of hormonal birth control and common painkillers called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs at the same time may have a slightly increased risk of developing blood clots, new research suggests.
"Considering the millions of women exposed to these drug classes, it is of course of interest, in a public health matter, to reduce the risk of thrombosis [blood clots] in concomitant users of these two drug classes," Dr. Amani Meaidi, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, told Live Science in an email.In past studies, hormonal contraceptives and NSAIDs have separately been linked to an increased risk of developing VTE.
They found that using NSAIDs alone was linked to a slightly increased risk of blood clots, and that the risk was somewhat amplified when a medium-to high-risk hormonal contraceptive was added. The study authors did highlight several limitations of the research. For instance, they're missing information on smoking and obesity rates among those studied, which may have affected the findings. Nor did they consider race or ethnicity, which can influence someone's risk of developing blood clots.
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