Autoimmune Condition, Especially Combined With Smoking And Oral Contraceptive Use, Massively Increases Risk Of Stroke And Heart Attack In Young Women

The autoimmune condition antiphospholipid syndrome mainly affects young women. An Article published Online First and in the November edition of The Lancet Neurology shows that women with a particular subtype of antibody called lupus anticoagulant (LA) have a more than 40-fold increased risk of stroke and 5-fold increased risk of heart attack compared with the general population (of young women). Smoking and oral contraceptive use increase the risk of these events even more.

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