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Women be warned: Your birth control pill could cause stroke

Oral birth control pills

Younger women on the oral birth control pill are at high risk of developing stroke, a study carried out at Kenya’s top two referral public hospitals says.

Scientists who recently studied 691 stroke patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and Moi Referral and Teaching Hospital (MRTH) report more women than men are being affected by stroke in Kenya.

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