Health policy and third-generation oral contraceptives
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Third generation oral contraceptives and vascular risks.
Third generation oral contraceptives (OC), containing the progestins desogestrel and gestodene, were introduced in the 1980s in a attempt to lower the risk of cardiovascular side effects. However, the observation that desogestrel and gestodene in combined OC were related to a 50 to 100% greater risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) suggested that the issue is more complex than originally thought...
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BACKGROUND Arterial cardiovascular and cerebrovascular adverse events associated with oral contraceptives (OC) are a major concern to the clinician. This paper aggregates the findings of seven recent oral contraceptive studies on the risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI) among users of second (2gen) and third (3gen) generation OC. METHODS Odds ratios (OR) from seven original studies publis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Reproduction
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0268-1161,1460-2350
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019228