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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
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Hormone Contraception: Studies of Adrenal Function. |
| In: Hoffman, F., ED. Advanced concepts in contraception (Proceedings of Four |
| Symposia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Boston). New York, Excerpta |
| Our studies confirmed earlier findings by others that in one commonly used test, the SU-4885 test, pituitary ACTH |
| reserve was suppressed in women who underwent two or more years of cyclic therapy with contraceptive steroids. On |
| cessation of treatment, a normal response returned. Our data indicate that the progestogen component, ethynodiol |
| diacetate, when given alone, had no effect on the SU-4885 test, and that the estrogen, ethinyl estradiol, was primarily |
| responsible for test inhibition. Other indices, such as resting steroid output and response to exogenous ACTH, |
| were little influenced by therapy; however, a statistically significant reduction in resting urinary 17-ketogenic steroids |
| was found during treatment. Although the abnormality in SU-4885 response remains to be elucidated, it was |
| demonstrated in these cases to be associated with a rise in transcortin as well as with a significant reduction in |
| "cortisol glucuronide conjugate" concentrations (following ACTH), a finding not previously appreciated. The latter |
| impairment, at least theoretically, could lead to suppression of ACTH release by prolonging the circulatory life of |
| endogenous cortisol, but it remains to be shown by tests other than the SU-4885 procedure that pituitary-adrenal |
| impairment does in fact exsist. Studies along this line, employing hypoglycemia as a challenge, are in progress. |
| (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1083-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Hormone Contraception: Studies of Adrenal Function.", |
| is(are) Gold EM. The source of this article is "In: Hoffman, F., ED. Advanced concepts in contraception (Proceedings |
| of Four Symposia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Boston). New York, Excerpta Medica Foundation, 1968". |
| This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1083-06. All |
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