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Birth Control Pills May Double Glaucoma Risk
Shazia Mehmood Siddique, M.D. abcnews.go.com Known simply as “the pill,” birth control is a daily regimen for millions of American women. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, four out of five women who have ever had sex have also taken a birth control pill at one time or another. But now, a new study shows that women who have used birth control on a long-term basis are twice as likely to have glaucoma — a leading cause of blindness. Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco, Duke University and Third Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University presented these findings at the American Association of Ophthalmology meeting on Sunday. Their study is the first to report this increased risk. The researchers reviewed data from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The study included more than 3,000 women 40 and older who completed vision and reproductive health questionnaires and underwent eye exams. The research revealed that the women who had been on birth control pills for more than three years had a doubled risk of glaucoma — a finding that held true even when the researchers took other risk factors for glaucoma into account. to read more click here: abcnews.go.com
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