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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Oral contraceptives: researchers doubt Vitamin A harms babies.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

Family Planning Digest 3(7): 13, January 1975.

ABSTRACT

Serum Vitamin-A levels in 534 women of whom 195 were recent users of oral contraceptives (OCs) and 339 who had

never used OCs were studied in the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. However, no significant difference in Vitamin-A

levels between the 2 groups was reported in the "British Medical Journal" (1: 57, 1974) by Leeds University

investigators. The incidence of abnormalities in the OC users was 4 and in the nonusers, 3. All were considered

minor and the incidence was not considered to be more than random expectation. However, Dr. Isabel Gal in a letter

to the "British Medical Journal" (2: 560, 1974) felt that the number and type (3 of the 4 were in the urogenital tract of

male infants) of abnormalities in the pill-user group were significant and that further study was required.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 3008-06)

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