The new research is published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The study found no increased risk of cancer, deep vein thrombosis or stroke.
It said that other studies had found oestrogen to cause thrombosis and strokes, in the same way as older-style contraceptive pills.
With a condition like deep-vein thrombosis for example, hospital staff relies on manual calculations to assess the risk of a patient.
The South African findings are broadly consistent with recent results from another investigation called the New Zealand Air Travellers Thrombosis Study.
Other conditions associated with similar symptoms that need to be considered include spinal stenosis, peripheral neuropathy, certain musculoskeletal conditions and deep venous thrombosis.
AIDS. In 1995, the pill was thought to have a possible link with thrombosis, a threat largely discounted by the World Health Organisation.
No-one knows how many people die of deep vein thrombosis a year but some scientists argue up to 10% of cases could be flight-related.
Cheered by its success in this field, Terumo is now developing microscopic catheters to treat cerebral thrombosis and even for delivering medication to cancerous growths.
English hospitals face being "named and shamed" for not screening patients for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) risk, NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has said.
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Professor Coombes said switching drugs also seemed to avoid the side-effects of long-term tamoxifen therapy, such as cancer of the womb and deep vein thrombosis.
As with combination therapy, the risk of fractures is lower, but there is an increased risk of stroke, gallbladder disease, deep vein thrombosis and urinary incontinence.
"One of the commoner causes of sudden death is a pulmonary embolism that may occur a week to ten days later after a thrombosis formed, " Lord says.
As a chronic deep vein thrombosis sufferer I would like to make one or two points in relation to your programme last night on deep vein thrombosis.
It showed that an aspirin a day reduces the incidence of heart attacks by half, and that the drug can also help to prevent thrombosis and strokes.
The 72-year-old archbishop - recently recovered after a long period of sick leave following a deep-vein thrombosis last winter - had said he was keen to resume his duties.
The label now includes a black box warning that it can increase the risk of death, MI, stroke, venous thromboembolism, thrombosis of vascular access, and tumor progression or recurrence.
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We now know the SNPs for cancer of the breast, prostate and lung as well as for obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular disease, deep-vein thrombosis, schizophrenia and countless more.
He has spent more than two months in bed under the care of his autocratic wife, Rahsan, and his afflictions range from a spinal disorder via cracked ribs and a thrombosis to loss of appetite.
Data from the Women's Health Initiative and other large-scale trials suggest estrogen plus progestin therapy moderately reduces risk for fractures but increases the chance of developing strokes, dementia, deep vein thrombosis, urinary incontinence and gallbladder disease.
Rivaroxaban is currently indicated in the US for stroke reduction in patients with atrial fibrillation, for the treatment and prevention of recurrence of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and for DVT prophylaxis after orthopedic surgery.
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Pfizer says that it believes partially inhibiting CETP, as its pill does, will still produce effective HDL. A recent paper by Pfizer researchers in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology does seem to bolster Pfizer's case.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Xarelto (rivaroxaban) to include treating deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE), and to reduce the risk of recurrent DVT and PE following initial treatment.
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The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".
Data presented at the EuroPCR 2012 congress this week demonstrated that in more than 10, 000 real-world patients treated with XIENCE PRIME and XIENCE V, no cases of stent thrombosis were reported in patients who discontinued DAPT after three months post-stent implantation.
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The European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA)1 and the Working Group (WG) on Thrombosis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) therefore decided it was time to write a consensus document outlining the advantages, disadvantages and expertise requirements of the radial approach.
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Results of a new study published April 4th in the American Heart Association Journal, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, discovered that individuals who walked briskly were able to reduce their high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and blood sugar (diabetes), as much as runners did and actually to a higher degree.
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