Blood Clot Risk Rapidly Drops After Stopping Common Contraception: Study Finds

By Megan Redshaw It’s widely known taking birth control pills and other hormone-based contraceptives can increase one’s risk of developing a blood clot, but new research suggests the risk rapidly decreases two to four weeks after stopping this form of contraception and, by 12 weeks, completely disappears. A recent peer-reviewed study in Blood, a journal published by the American Society of…

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