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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| A comparison between the vaginal ring and oral contraceptives. |
| Veres S; Miller L; Burington B |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2004 Sep;104(3):555-563. |
| The objective was to investigate whether contraceptive vaginal ring use results in similar estimated genital |
| symptoms, signs, examination, and laboratory findings compared with oral contraceptive use. Women were randomly |
| assigned to either contraceptive vaginal ring or a 20 µg ethinyl estradiol oral contraceptive pill use for 3 consecutive |
| 28-day cycles, directly followed by 3 cycles of the study drug not initially assigned. Subjects scored genital |
| symptoms on a daily diary using a 0-4 scale and underwent a baseline, cycle 2, cycle 4, and exit pelvic examination |
| including vaginal discharge evaluation, vaginal Gram stain and white cell count, and culture for yeast and |
| Lactobacillus, including colony count and hydrogen peroxide production. Of the 40 subjects assigned to each arm, |
| 33 (82.5%) subjects in the ring-first arm and 31 (77.5%) subjects in the pill-first arm completed all study visits |
| (P_.58). Most subjects reported few genital symptoms with either method, but 63% of subjects reported vaginal |
| wetness during ring use compared with 43% during pill use. During ring use larger numbers of Lactobacillus |
| colonies present were positive for hydrogen peroxide production (fold difference 2.67, 95% confidence interval 1.49, |
| 4.78, P < .001). All other laboratory data, including yeast colony counts, Nugent Gram stain score, vaginal white |
| blood cell count, vaginal pH, and discharge weight, were not significantly different by method. Some women may |
| notice an increase in vaginal wetness during contraceptive ring use yet the method is well tolerated and appears to |
| improve the vaginal flora. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 503-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "A comparison between the vaginal ring and oral |
| contraceptives.", is(are) Veres S; Miller L; Burington B. The source of this article is "Obstetrics and Gynecology. |
| 2004 Sep;104(3):555-563.". This article was published in 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document |
| ID: CONT1T 503-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 503 |
| This article is peer-reviewed. |
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