Combined Oral Contraceptives
Effectiveness and acceptability of progestogens in combined oral contraceptives – a systematic review
... Combined oral contraceptives (OCs) were first intro- duced for clinical use in the 1960's. Ethinylestradiol (EE) has been the most commonly used estrogen component. In order to reduce the side ...
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Comparison of the pharmacologic and clinical profiles of new combined oral contraceptives containing estradiol
... In summary, E 2 V/DNG, E 2 /NOMAC, and E 2 V/CPA are all effective oral contraceptives. The contraceptive effectiveness of E 2 V/CPA was, however, assessed in women with a mean age of 39 years, and as such ...
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Knowledge and attitudes of Latin American gynecologists regarding unplanned pregnancy and use of combined oral contraceptives
... and family practitioners, of whom 93.6% prescribed hormonal contraceptives, assessed knowledge about hormonal contra- ceptives and cancer prevention. This study showed that 73.6% of the respondents were aware of ...
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Oxidative Stress in Female Athletes Using Combined Oral Contraceptives
... There are limitations in our study. We studied young adult white female athletes, and thus, we cannot generalize these results to older athletes or sportswomen with different ethnic backgrounds; sport activities of ath- ...
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A comparison of combined oral contraceptives containing chlormadinone acetate versus drospirenone for the treatment of acne and dysmenorrhea: a randomized trial
... results showed more favorable benefits of using EE/CMA compared to EE/DRSP. Treatment with EE/CMA for 6 cycles showed a reduction in total acne lesions by 72.2% compared to the baseline level while 64.5% reduction was ...
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Effectiveness and side effects of hormonal contraceptives
... non-hormonal contraceptives with different routes of administration on free TFPI and free Protein S levels, as determinants of the thrombin generation-based APC resistance ...used contraceptives with the ...
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Migraine in women: the role of hormones and their impact on vascular diseases
... hormonal contraceptives and hormone replacement treatment may influence migraine ...of combined oral contra- ceptives to migraineurs may further increase the risk for ischemic ...scribing ...
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Abnormal uterine bleeding
... Hormonal options available for the treatment of AUB include the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS), combined oral contraceptives (COCs), depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (D[r] ...
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Efficacy and safety of combined ethinyl estradiol/drospirenone oral contraceptives in the treatment of acne
... including combined oral contraceptives (OCs), can attenuate the proximate androgenic trigger of this ...2 combined OC preparations (30 µg EE/3 mg DRSP; Yasmin ® in a 21/7 regimen; and 20 µg ...
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Contraception and Venous Thromboembolism: Risk Factors and Clinical Considerations
... using combined oral contraceptives, intrau- terine contraceptives and male condoms, taking into account the VTE risk associated with the contraceptive method itself, as well as VTE risk due to ...
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Non-contraceptive benefits of oral contraceptives
... there is no doubt that estrogens increase the risk of thromboembolism two- to four-fold, fatal thromboembolism among young women is extremely rare (1% of cases), and this increased risk should be balanced against the ...
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EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION: WHICH ARE THE AVAILABLE TOOLS?
... As noted, it is not appropriate to call the EC as the "morning after pill" or "the next day pill", as it moves away from the true concept and form of administration. [3] It is not for the next morning, ...
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Clinical utility of folate-containing oral contraceptives
... Neural tube closure occurs during the first month after con- ception, often before a woman is aware of her pregnancy status. The potential to reduce the incidence of NTDs with folate supplementation is well established ...
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Oral contraceptives and venous thromboembolism: a quantitative discussion of uncertainties
... If oral contraceptive use increases the risk of venous throm- bosis from 1.1 to 3.3 per 10000 (risk difference 2.2/10000), a total of 4545 asymptomatic women should refrain from using or[r] ...
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Prothrombotic conditions, oral contraceptives, and the risk of ischemic stroke
... In the interpretation of these findings, a possible limitation is that we only studied women who survived an ischemic stroke. However, mortality after stroke in young women is low [21]. Indeed, of the eligible patients in ...
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Elevation of Plasma Neurophysin in Women on Oral Contraceptives
... Elevated plasma neurophysin in women during estrogen administration may indicate oxytocin and/or vasopressin secretion, but no studies have directly assayed oxytocin or vasopressin in wo[r] ...
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Examining the use of oral contraceptives in the management of acne
... comparing oral contraceptives to ...comparing oral contraceptives did not convincingly show superiority of one oral contraceptive to another in the treatment of ...
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Hemostatic effects of oral contraceptives in women who developed deep-vein thrombosis while using oral contraceptives
... use of oral contraceptives or placebo This offers obvious practical problems, and therefore we used a pseudo-randomized approach we analysed hemostatic variables in the Leiden Thrombophi[r] ...
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Oral contraceptives and the risk of myocardial infarction
... A direct com- parison of oral contraceptives containing 30 μ§ of ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel, desogestrel, or gestodene revealed an odds ratio for myocardial infarc- tion of 0[r] ...
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Synergic effect of oral contraceptives, GSTP1 polymorphisms, and high-risk HPV infection in development of cervical lesions.
... long-term oral contraceptive use is associated with a set of cancers, including cervical, breast, and liver cancers (La Vecchia et ...in oral contraceptive have augmented estrogenic activity compared with ...
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