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Use of Combined Oral Contraceptives and Headaches

Medicina, 2011
Objective. The study was designed to examine the certain patterns of combined oral contraceptive use in women of childbearing potential and evaluate the relationship between the use of combined oral contraceptives and headaches, bad habits, type of work, and concomitant diseases. Material and Methods. In total, 194 randomly selected women aged 18 to 40
Šimonienė, Diana, Vanagienė, Virginija, Žilaitienė, Birutė, Vanagas, Tadas   +3 more
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Combined Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Thrombosis. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci
Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) remain one of the most popular reversible contraceptive methods worldwide. Still, regardless of the drug composition and duration of therapy, almost all COCs are associated with the risk of venous thrombosis. This review highlights the main pathogenetic mechanisms of thrombosis development during oral contraceptive ...
Khizroeva J, Bitsadze V, Sukhikh G, Tretyakova M, Gris JC, Elalamy I, Gerotziafas G, Kapanadze D, Kvaratskheliia M, Tatarintseva A, Khisamieva A, Hovancev I, Yakubova F, Makatsariya A.   +13 more
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Review of the literature on combined oral contraceptives and cancer. [PDF]

Ecancermedicalscience, 2022
Millions of women have given preference to the use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) since its introduction in the 1960s. Both oestrogens and progestogens can regulate proliferation and it is plausible these effects may contribute to carcinogenesis.
Kamani M, Akgor U, Gültekin M.
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Benefits and Risks of Combined Oral Contraceptives

Methods of Information in Medicine, 1993
Abstract:The use of combined oral contraceptives carries a number of well-established major non-contraceptive benefits. Of these, the most important protective effects are suppression of the risk of epithelial cancer of the ovary and cancer of the endometrium. Also of great importance is a reduction in the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease.
M. P. Vessey
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Altered pharmacokinetics of combined oral contraceptives in obesity — multistudy assessment [PDF]

Contraception, 2019
Dandan Luo, Carolyn L Westhoff, Alison Edelman   +2 more
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Use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and fracture risk [PDF]

, 2010
Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), which has a high rate of use among teenagers in Europe and the United States, has been associated with impaired bone mineral acquisition during adolescence and accelerated bone loss in later life.
Kraenzlin, Marius E., Meier, Christoph R., Christoph R. Meier, Meier, Christian, Yolanda B. Brauchli, Brauchli, Yolanda B., Susan S. Jick, Jick, Susan S., Marius E. Kraenzlin, Christian Meier   +9 more
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Combined oral contraception and cancer [PDF]

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2000
Since their introduction in the 1960s the safety of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) has been widely debated. The difficulty in determining if COC use increases the risk of developing cancer is due to: • the long latent period between exposure to the potential carcinogen and overt malignant disease • the fact that due to the developments in COCs ...
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The social amplification of risk and the hazard sequence: The October 1995 oral contraceptive pill scare [PDF]

, 2003
Hazard notifications routinely occur as part of the identification or management of a hazard. It is argued that a series of such notifications - a hazard sequence - may affect public responses to future notifications about that hazard and also that ...
Barnett, Julie, Breakwell, Glynis M., Breakwell, GM, Barnett, J   +3 more
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Combined oral contraceptives and liver cancer [PDF]

, 1989
A multi‐national, hospital‐based, case‐control study was conducted to evaluate the possible relationships of steroid contraceptives to 6 neoplasms.
Modan, Baruch, Alfandary, Esther, Gatei, D., Dabancens, Aifredo, Salas, Oriana, Yun, Tao, Kungu, Alfred, Ron, Elaine, Ibeziako, Patrick A., Aristizabal, Nubia, Kenya, Patrick, Mati, J. G., Cuadros, Alvaro, Abio, Zhi‐Heng, Chen, Molina, Ramiro, Martinez, Luis, Yong‐Wei, Hu   +17 more
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Influence of combined oral contraceptives on the periodontal condition [PDF]

, 2012
Most studies investigating the impact of oral contraceptives have been performed some years ago, when the level of sexual hormones was greater than the actual formulations.
Bruna Fidêncio Rahal Ferraz, Greghi, Sebastião Luiz Aguiar, SantAna, Adriana Campos Passanezi, Maria Lúcia Rubo de Rezende, Domingues, Roberta Santos, Rezende, Maria Lúcia Rubo de, Rubo de Rezende, Maria Lucia, Sebastião Luiz Aguiar Greghi, Euloir Passanezi, Passanezi, Euloir, Ferraz, Bruna Fidêncio Rahal, Rahal Ferraz, Bruna Fidencio, Aguiar Greghi, Sebastiao Luiz, Roberta Santos Domingues, Adriana Campos Passanezi Sant’Ana, Passanezi Sant'Ana, Adriana Campos   +15 more
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