منابع مشابه
Oral Contraceptives
Current low dose OCs are highly effective with an excellent safety profile and many associated health benefits No single product has been shown to be superior in efficacy, safety or tolerability There is no "one size fits all" OC; different women may require different formulations Smoking particularly after age 35 with concurrent OC use greatly increases cardiovascular and thrombotic risks Age ...
متن کاملOral contraceptives and women's health in Japan.
Japan approved the use of low-dose oral contraceptives (OCs) in June 1999, after more than 35 years of debate. The debate leaves a legacy of misinformation about and various sources of resistance to OCs. Benefits are expected to include greater control for women over their fertility and a reduction in the high rates of unplanned pregnancies and abortions. Successful implementation of the new po...
متن کاملHealth consequences of combined oral contraceptives.
During the past 40 years, combined oral contraceptives (COCs) have become a key component of modern fertility regulation programmes. Today, an estimated 100 million women throughout the world use this method of contraception. With such wide-spread usage, it is perhaps not surprising that COCs have been the subject of extensive medical research.
متن کاملAmenorrhoea after oral contraceptives
and five years after the birth of the last child routine recall should start. The fall in detection rates among women repeatedly presenting themselves for rescreening is so dramatic12 that a limit could be put on rescreening. Multiphasic screening has already been criticised,13 and the Canadians agree that it is not realistic. For example, to link cervical screening with screening for breast ca...
متن کاملOral Contraceptives Containing Only
Oral contraceptives containing only a progestogen have had a chequered career. In 1965 trials in Latin America showed that very small amounts of a progestogen, chlormadinone acetate, when given without any added oestrogen had a strong antifertility effect. Not all progestogens are suitable for use alone. Indeed with norethynodrel, the progestogen most commonly used in the late 1960s, the amount...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Saudi Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0256-4947,0975-4466
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.62832