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YEAR: 1992

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Is oral contraceptive use still associated with an increased risk of fatal

myocardial infarction? Report of a case-control study.

AUTHORS

Thorogood M; Mann J; Murphy M; Vessey M

SOURCE

OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1992 Jul;47(7):512-4.

ABSTRACT

Physicians from Oxford University in England and from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, compared

data on 161 women who died of myocardial infarction with data on 309 women matched for age and marital status to

determine whether the relative risk of fatal myocardial infarction associated with oral contraceptive (OC) use has

fallen. The relative risk of fatal myocardial infarction was 1.1 among current OC users and 1.4 among past OC users.

The relative risk of both current and past OC users. The relative risk of both current and past OC use together was

1.9. Cases used OCs with 50 mcg of estrogen at a rate more than 3 times that of controls. The relative risk of fatal

myocardial infarction for current use of a 50 mcg estrogen OC was 4.2. Almost 50% of cases used progestin-only

OCs, however. Smoking likely had a confounding effect on the relative risk of myocardial infarction with OC use, but

the data prevented the researchers from quantitatively analyzing smoking's effect. This case control study showed an

increased risk of myocardial infarction in women with a history of preeclampsia/eclampsia, nonpregnancy-

associated hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus. These findings suggested that the risk of fatal

myocardial infarction in healthy women using lower dose OCs is very small. If larger studies would confirm these

findings and if studies examining nonfatal myocardial infarctions would also find OCs have an insignificant risk,

these studies would reassure OC users and would-be OC users concerned about cardiovascular effects.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1530-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Is oral contraceptive use still associated with an increased

risk of fatal myocardial infarction? Report of a case-control study.", is(are) Thorogood M; Mann J; Murphy M;

Vessey M. The source of this article is "OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1992 Jul;47(7):512-4.".

This article was published in 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1530-06. All

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