TL;DR The Pill.
Onward.
What we know, from public reporting, is that the six blood clot patients:
- all women
- age range 18 to 48
Does that spark a memory? Of course it does. The Pill has been implicated in blood clots from the beginning. It will be this time, too. What is not yet reported:
- did these women all use any form of The Pill?
- did they all/most use the same Pill?
- does this Pill formulation have higher incidence of blood clots?
So, today we get new reporting, and lo and behold
It's also not clear who's at highest risk, Dr. Douglas Cines of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. James Bussel of Weill Cornell Medicine wrote in a commentary. "Most of the patients included in these reports were women younger than 50 years of age, some of whom were receiving estrogen-replacement therapy or oral contraceptives. A remarkably high percentage of the patients had thromboses at unusual sites," they wrote."Some" makes the correlation not a slam dunk, of course. "All" would be a much better signal; perhaps we'll find out soon.
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