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Doctors believe the nation’s best-selling birth control pills can lead to blood clots and are complicit in at least two women’s deaths

Many doctors and politicians are calling for the country’s leading birth control pill to be removed from the market after a TV2 News programme Sunday presented information indicating the pills could lead to blood clots and even death.

The programme, Dags Dato, focused on a 24 year-old woman who, after taking Yasmin birth control pills, suffered an aneurism and is now near death. Doctors who treated the woman asserted that the aneurism was caused by the pills and provided additional information pointing to two recent deaths also related to the medicine.

Some 350,000 women in Denmark take Yasmin, which makes up 11 percent of all birth control pills sold. But many of the nation’s obstetricians - along with a leading expert from the Netherlands - have noticed an alarmingly high proportion of side effects reported by women taking Yasmin over other brands of birth control pills.

The doctors reported their findings to the Danish Medicines Agency (DKMA), but the agency maintained that all birth control pills share the same risks.

‘The problem isn’t just with Yasmin,’ said Doris Stenver, the agency’s Chief Medical Officer. She told Dags Dato that DKMA would not yet pull the product from the market because the few figures presented to DKMA were not sufficient to make a proper judgement.

DKMA indicated nonetheless it would investigate the physicians’ claims made on Dags Dato.

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