LONDON – The risk of developing a possibly fatal blood clot is more than double among menopausal women who receive hormone-replacement therapy pills, French researchers notified on Friday.

The risk was particularly higher in the first year of treatment as suggested by the review of 17 studies. The reviews were reported in the British Medical Journal. One of the common causes of heart attacks and strokes are the blood clots in the arteries while vein clots may kill if move through the body of the lungs.

According to the meta- analysis the use oral estrogen increases blood clots risk by two to three- folds, Stated Pierre-Yves Scarabin and Marianne Canonico of the Paul Brousse Hospital, France.

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