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Women who take contraceptive pills since the early 1960s identified more longevity than peers who did not take the pills. This is because users of the Pill lower gastrointestinal cancer risk and other diseases.

Conclusions are made based on research results of experts from the UK to 46,000 women for four decades, namely since 1968. The researchers compared death rates in women who take birth control pills and who do not.

Mortality in women aged in their 30s was lower, but at age 50 the figure was turned. Still, doctors could not ascertain why birth control pills reduce the death rate.

Contraceptive pill contains synthetic hormones to suppress ovulation. Besides preventing pregnancy, it is thought to also prevent some types of diseases. This is why, most women who take birth control pills are generally healthier.

Previously some of the literature mentioned, birth control pills will protect women from ovarian and endometrial cancer. On the other hand, the risk of breast cancer and cervical cancer increases.

Because the focus of this study only compared the health effects on women who take birth control pills and what not, the researchers were not able to make hypotheses about cause and effect.

"In the long-term use, the health benefits from the use of birth control pills would exceed the side effects," said Richard Anderson, a gynecologist from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

However, Anderson argues, the results of this study is not necessarily the same in pill users of modern generation due to differences in product formulations with the early generations. Benefits that can be obtained from the birth control pills also depends on when a person starts taking the pill and how long the period.