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YEAR:

1970

CATEGORY:

Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Medical aspects of oral contraceptives.

AUTHORS

Elgee NJ

SOURCE

Annals of Internal Medicine 72(3): 409-418. 1970.

ABSTRACT

Medical and laboratory evaluations of oral contraceptives containing estrogen and progesterone, singularly or in

combination, show that the pill does increase total plasma cortisol to levels similar to those of Cushing's syndrome.

21 reports have noted an Association of positive lupus erythematosus with pill use, and rheumatic symptoms,

synovitis, and Raynaud's phenomenon seemed related. Patients with lupus should avoid the pill entirely. Hepatic

abnormalities are generally benign and reversible and are basically cholestatic. Questions are unanswered

regarding patients with ordinary portal cirrhosis or history of viral hepatitis. In women developing hypertension the pill

should be withdrawn. Preexisting malignancies may spread and grow, however, no evidence exists that it is induced

by the pill. Physicians should be familiar with common physiologic distortions and rare organic complications

encountered among those taking the pill. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 4558-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Medical aspects of oral contraceptives.", is(are) Elgee NJ.

The source of this article is "Annals of Internal Medicine 72(3): 409-418. 1970.". This article was published in 1970

in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 4558-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info)

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