Natural estrogen pills reduce the risk of thrombosis

In Belgium, 69% of women between the ages of 14 and 55 use contraception, according to the latest available data. Among them, more than one in two opts for the pill, the most common being the so-called "combined" pill (CP), which includes an estrogen and a progestogen. An association that is also found in the contraceptive patch and vaginal ring. For more than 60 years, ethinylestradiol has been the reference estrogen in these contraceptives, be…