HPV May Be Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke In Women

[HuckleB]

http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/news/20111024/hpv-may-be-linked-to-heart-attack-stroke-in-women

"It's well known that several types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause most cases of cervical cancer. Now new research suggests that some of these same types of HPV may also increase a woman's likelihood of having a heart attack and/or stroke -- even without any other risk factors.

HPV can be transmitted through vaginal, anal, and oral sex. It has been linked to genital warts as well as cervical, vaginal, vulvar, oral, penile, and anal cancers.

Two HPV vaccines are now approved by the FDA. Both of these vaccines are recommended to prevent cervical cancers. They are now on the CDC's childhood routine vaccination schedule for girls starting at age 9.

If validated, the new research suggests that the HPV shot may also help prevent heart disease and stroke in some women.

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Just FYI. Yes, follow up research is needed.

:hi:

[animato]

1. Somewhere I read that over 50% of people under 30

carry the HPV virus. This can also lead to throat cancer, not fun at all!

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[trotsky]

3. Sadly, there are those who will read this news and say to themselves...

"Good. She deserves it for sleeping around."

Those same people tend to oppose the HPV vaccine for that very reason - they think women who enjoy sex should be punished, and that it is not fair for them to avoid these kinds of consequences.

[HuckleB]

5. It's a sad, crazy world.

As the cliche goes: Someone ought to sell tickets.

[ehrnst]

4. The Abstinence Only whack jobs will now say that premarital sex causes heart attacks and stroke.

This is gold for them.

[HuckleB]

6. Just to clarify what the vaccine does, and how it is different from an actual HPV infection.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/HPV-vaccine