Longer follow up always proves oral contraceptives beneficial.
Recent evidence from long term observations of hundreds of thousands of women, in 10 European Countries, clearly demonstrated that the use of oral contraceptives reduced mortality by roughly 10%. [1][3]
Newer oral contraceptives increase womens' overall survival.
In comparison, drastically reducing obesity by 5 BMI points would only reduce mortality by 5%, from 1.05 to 1. [2]
Your excellent prose cannot beat hard clinical evidence in this argument.
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Longer follow up always proves oral contraceptives beneficial.
Recent evidence from long term observations of hundreds of thousands of women, in 10 European Countries, clearly demonstrated that the use of oral contraceptives reduced mortality by roughly 10%. [1][3]
Newer oral contraceptives increase womens' overall survival.
In comparison, drastically reducing obesity by 5 BMI points would only reduce mortality by 5%, from 1.05 to 1. [2]
Your excellent prose cannot beat hard clinical evidence in this argument.
References
[1] doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0484-3.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627614/
[2] http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2156
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28188769
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