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Women have to 鈥渨eigh up the risks and the benefits鈥� of the combined contraceptive pill, says Dr Sarah Jarvis.

Speaking to 5 live鈥檚 Phil Williams, Dr Jarvis said that taking any kind of estrogen 鈥渄oes increase your levels of clotting鈥� and up to 30 out of 100 thousand people on 鈥渟ome kinds of the pill鈥� will get a pulmonary embolism - a clot on the leg which travels to and lodges in the lung.

She said the condition will only affect around 25 to 30 out of a thousand women on 鈥渟ome kinds of the pill.鈥�

Her comments come after a coroner has concluded 23-year-old Charlotte Foster died from the untreated side effects of the combined contraceptive pill.

This clip is originally from Phil Williams Thursday 28 July 2016.