The problem of hypertension and ovulation inhibitors]

It is reported on a 46-year-old woman who died of a haemorrhage of the cerebral matter in renally fixed hypertension and severe arteriosclerosis of the arteries of the basis of the brain. The possible connection between hypertension, arteriolosclerosis of the kidneys and arterioclerosis of the arteries of the brain basis and an intake of ovulation inhibitors lasting 10 years is critically discussed.