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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Primary infertility and oral contraceptive steroid use.

AUTHORS

Bagwell MA; Coker AL; Thompson SJ; Baker ER; Addy CL

SOURCE

FERTILITY AND STERILITY. 1995 Jun;63(6):1161-6.

ABSTRACT

Researchers compared data on 419 nulligravid US women diagnosed with primary infertility (no conception during 24

consecutive months of unprotected intercourse) with data on 2120 fertile women to examine the relationship between

use of combined monophasic oral contraceptives (OCs) and primary infertility. All cases had documented

reproductive histories from menarche to menopause for contraceptive methods before infertility. Controls were more

likely than infertile women to have used OCs (14.2% vs. 9.07%; unadjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.6) and to have used

OCs longer (33.6 vs. 30.1 months; OR = 0.6). Infertile women were just as likely as fertile women to have used high-

estrogen-dose OCs (i.e., >50 mcg) (5.28% vs. 8.52%). Fertile women were more likely than infertile women to have

used barrier methods (41.8% vs. 17.2%; OR = 0.29). When the researchers adjusted for education and barrier method

use, infertile women were still less likely to have used OCs than fertile women, especially women who were 20 years

old at first conception or infertility (adjusted OR [AOR] = 0.27) (AOR = 0.68 for older women). Both high- and low-

estrogen-dose OCs were associated with a reduced risk of primary infertility (AOR = 0.48 for <or= 50 mcg and 0.4 for

>50 mcg). These results suggest that combined OC use reduces the risk of primary infertility, especially among

younger women, regardless of duration of use or estrogen dose. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3016-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Primary infertility and oral contraceptive steroid use.",

is(are) Bagwell MA; Coker AL; Thompson SJ; Baker ER; Addy CL. The source of this article is "FERTILITY AND

STERILITY. 1995 Jun;63(6):1161-6.". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT2T 3016-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 8016

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