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topics under category "Contraception
(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 |
| Effects of contraceptive steroids on carbohydrate metabolism. |
| Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 28: 1564-1571. November |
| In a study of the effects of oral contraceptives on carbohydrate metabolism, 12 women received cyclic ethinyl |
| estradiol (100 mcg) for 16 days followed by dimethisterone (25 mg) plus ethinyl-estradiol (100 mcg) for 5 days |
| (sequential therapy), and 11 women received cyclic ethinyl estradiol 3-methyl ether (100 mcg) plus ethynodiol |
| diacetate (1 mg) for 20 days (combination therapy). Subjects were nonobese, at least 6 weeks postpartum, had no |
| family history of nor obstetrical history suggestive of diabetes, and were of mean age 23. No significant differences |
| were found between the sequential and combination regimens. Contraceptive treatment brought a 3-fold increase in |
| HGH and relative hyperinsulinism. Oral and iv glucose tolerance tests (GTTs) were performed before treatment and |
| during the third cycle of treatment (Days 10-15). Tests were run at fasting and at 15, 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes |
| after the administration of either 75 g of Glucola by mouth (15-minute sample omitted) or 25 g of glucose as 50% |
| dextrose intravenously. Neither the iv nor the oral GT curves were unusual. Oral GTT brought a much greater |
| insulinogenic response than iv GTT, both before and after treatment. With the iv GTT, blood glucose at 30 (p less |
| than .05), 60 (p less than .01), and 90 (p less than .05) minutes was significantly elevated above corresponding |
| pretreatment levels. No significant differences were found with oral glucose. With contraceptive treatment elevated |
| HGH levels, which exert an antiinsulin effect, appear to be important in the induction of compensatory |
| hyperinsulinism, but the possible contribution of the insulinogenic effect of cortisol should be investigated when |
| seeking the reasons for the normality of the GT curves in this study. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1003-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Effects of contraceptive steroids on carbohydrate |
| metabolism.", is(are) Yen SS; Vela P. The source of this article is "Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and |
| Metabolism 28: 1564-1571. November 1968.". This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). |
| (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1003-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41003 |
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