Sentences with phrase «of use of oral contraceptives»

Questionnaires were used to ascertain sociodemographic history, disease and lifestyle history, obstetric history, breastfeeding history, and history of use of oral contraceptives.

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Children are a gift from God (my husband and I are currently expecting our first) but some women may never get to become mother's due to reproductive issues that can be helped through the use of oral contraceptives.

As an extra measure of precaution, I take oral birth contraceptives instead of the traditional hormone replacement therapy that is often used by other women with my condition.

There is no evidence that using oral contraceptives while pregnant will increase the risk of birth defects or miscarriage.

Our analyses focused on five conditions that have been consistently associated with breastfeeding in observational studies that adjusted for parity as well as known or suspected confounders such as diet, physical activity, oral contraceptive use (in the case of cancer and hypertension), 6,7,18 and socioeconomic status (Table 1).

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

Nationwide, about 11.2 million women ages 15 to 44, or 18 percent of all U.S. women, currently use oral contraceptive pills.

Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley in the USA conducted a meta - analysis of all existing data examining the effect of using the most commonly prescribed forms of hormonal contraception (combined oral contraceptives, progestin - only pills, and the injectable contraceptives DMPA and norethisterone enanthate) on HIV risk up to June, 2014.

This association was similar across subgroups of women, including by age, smoking status, hypertension, postmenopausal hormone therapy, and oral contraceptive use.

Reproductive - age women are disproportionately impacted by Lupus, says Gulati, who cited a study in the United Kingdom that found an increased risk of Lupus in women using oral contraceptives.

They adjusted for a variety of factors, such as age, physical activity, smoking, family history of diabetes, alcohol intake, postmenopausal status, menopausal hormone or oral contraceptive use, total caloric intake, and body mass index.

Factors such as age, height, weight, race, family history of breast cancer, history of benign breast disease, smoking, menopausal status, hormone and oral contraceptive use were taken into account.

Using oral contraceptives before attempting IVF can allow women and their physicians to better know the timing of ovulation.

The study, published on 4 October in Lancet Infectious Diseases, also showed that oral contraceptive use by women increased the risk of HIV infection for both women and men with infected partners, but the numbers generated did not rise to statistical significance.

Connie Celum, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who ran a large oral PrEP study with Truvada that had 73 % efficacy, says it will be important to compare VOICE and CAPRISA 004 for differences in sexual behaviors, sexually transmitted infections, cervicovaginal inflammation, and contraceptive use.

Although estrogen doses in oral contraceptives have decreased appreciably over the years, with pills in the 1960s typically containing more than double the estrogen dose of pills in the 1980s, the reduction in endometrial cancer risk was at least as great for women who used the pill during the 1980s as for those who used it in earlier decades.

Researchers from the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies on Endometrial Cancer estimate that in the past 50 years (1965 - 2014) about 400000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented by oral contraceptive use in high - income countries, including about 200000 in the last decade (2005 - 2014).

The findings reveal that every 5 years of oral contraceptive use reduces the risk of endometrial cancer by about a quarter.

In high - income countries, 10 years of oral contraceptive use reduces the risk of developing endometrial cancer before age 75 from 2.3 to 1.3 cases per 100 users.

According to study author Dr Naomi Allen, also from the University of Oxford, UK, «The existing evidence suggests that medium - to - long - term use of oral contraceptives (ie, for 5 years or longer) results in substantially reduced risk of endometrial cancer.

Use of oral contraceptives (usually referred to as «the pill»), even for just a few years, gives substantial long - term protection against endometrial (womb) cancer, and the longer the pill is used the greater the reduction in risk, according to a detailed re-analysis of all the available evidence, published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

FMc concentrations were significantly higher in the controls than in the women with history of breast cancer (p = 0.01) in a model of the ranked values adjusted for age, number of children, birth of a son, history of miscarriage, oral contraceptive use, and total number of genomes tested.

Other known risk modifiers for breast cancer such as age at first pregnancy, history of oral contraceptive use, breast feeding, and smoking did not meaningfully confound the overall association of FMc absence with breast cancer.

Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc.

Women who use low - dose oral contraceptive pills have a two-fold increased risk of a fatal heart attack compared to non - users.9 Women who take oral contraceptives and smoke have a 12-fold increase in fatal heart attacks and a 3.1-fold increase in fatal brain hemorrhage.10 Women who use the Pill after the age of 45 have a 144 percent greater risk of developing breast cancer than women who have never used it.11

Lead author Angelica Lindén Hirschberg, MD, professor of women's and children's health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, says that doctors know surprisingly little about oral contraceptives» effects on women's health — despite the fact that an estimated 100 million women around the world use them.

A 2013 research review published in Obstetrics and Gynecology examined the results of 55 studies and found that for women with average risk, using oral contraceptives reduced lifetime risk of ovarian cancer by 40 to 50 %.

More than 20 well - controlled studies have demonstrated the clear risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer with the use of oral contraceptives.

However, women in this study who were exercising but also using oral contraceptives did not show the same benefit: their bones remained the same in spite of the exercise regimen.

In a 2011 study published in BMJ Open, researchers suggested there might be a link between oral contraceptive use by women, and rising rates of prostate cancer (an estrogen - sensitive cancer) in men, due to the excess estrogen from women making its way into our drinking water.

The use of medications, such as antidepressants, cortisone and oral contraceptives, may cause obesity by increasing appetite or decreasing metabolism.

The importance of zinc status for a pregnant mother is so important, in fact, that women who have been on oral contraceptives are advised to wait 6 months before conceiving after discontinuing use.

Eliminate or minimize the use of antibiotics, steroids, immune - suppressing drugs and oral contraceptives (only after consulting with your health care provider or physician).

Poor diet (high sugar and processed foods), aging, stress, hormone changes, alcohol use and medications (oral contraceptives, diuretics), can all affect your levels of magnesium.

The conventional approach to severe cramps and PMS is the use of over-the-counter pain medication and low - dose oral contraceptives.

Use of other steroidal compounds, such as corticosteroids, oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy contribute to the overabundance of Candida.

1 - lack of relaxation 2 - devitalized food 3 - unfulfilling employment (dead - end jobs) 4 - dead - end relationships (romantic or not) 5 - surgery 6 - junk food 7 - trans fats and rancid fats 8 - financial stress 9 - sedentary lifestyle 10 - excessive exercise 11 - death of a loved one 12 - alcoholism 13 - smoking 14 - illicit drug use 15 - prescription drug use 16 - toxins 17 - poor eating habits 18 - marital stress 19 - repeated traumas 20 - workaholism 21 - nutritional deficiencies 22 - hormonal imbalances 23 - oral contraceptives 24 - stimulants 25 - counterproductive attitudes and beliefs 26 - conventional hormone replacement therapy 27 - non-prescription drugs 28 - psychological stress 29 - persistent fears 30 - emotional stress 31 - lack of sleep 32 - being in denial about feelings 33 - acute or chronic infection 34 - repeated stresses 35 - persistent negative stressors 36 - fun or enjoyment deprivation 37 - allergies 38 - caffeine 39 - white sugar and white flour products 40 - antacids 41 - artificial sweeteners and colors 42 - major life events — even if perceived consciously as «good» (e.g.: graduating high school, moving, etc..)

In this study, oral contraceptive use was the strongest predictor of low - grade inflammation in the body, and was quite prevalent compared to women not using birth control, and also compared with men.

Deficiency Symptoms Folate deficiency is a common problem, especially in women (pregnancy, breastfeeding and oral contraceptive use depletes stores of this vitamin).

There are similar risks for younger women who use oral contraceptives — birth control pills, which are also comprised of synthetic hormones — have been linked to cervical and breast cancers.

Ethinylestradiol (common in oral contraceptive pills, this is released into the environment as a xenoestrogen through the urine and feces of women who use this)

Case reports of mania induction with St John's wort have resulted in limited use of this herbal for the treatment of both major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.45, 46 Interactions between St John's wort and conventional drugs are mediated by the induction of cytochrome P - 450 3A4, which results in increased metabolism and decreased absorption of widely used drugs, including digoxin, anticoagulants, antiretrovirals, oral contraceptives, statins, and cyclosporine.47

As part of the history, the doctor will want to know which, if any, risk factors for stroke you have: high blood pressure, diabetes, irregular heartbeat, oral contraceptive use, heredity, other heart diseases, smoking, diet (especially high sodium and high cholesterol), obesity, lack of exercise, blood disorders, and heavy alcohol consumption.

The pill also increases your risk for inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease; in fact, two large prospective cohort studies of American women linked oral contraceptive use with Crohn's.

In the study, about 1.3 million women, with an average age of 55, who visited UK breast cancer screening clinics between 1996 to 2001 answered a variety of questions, including the type and frequency of alcohol consumption, smoking, body mass index, exercise, and use of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy.

Although oral contraceptives are highly effective at preventing pregnancy, about 9 percent of women get pregnant the first year of using them.

Compared with women who did not use multivitamins, multivitamin users were more likely to have a postsecondary education, have a history of benign breast disease, be nulliparous, and to have used oral contraceptives and postmenopausal hormones, but they were less likely to smoke (Table 1).

Adjusted for age, education, family history of breast cancer, history of benign breast disease, parity, age at first birth, age at menarche, age at menopause, oral contraceptive use, postmenopausal hormone use, BMI, physical activity, smoking, calcium supplement use, and alcohol intake.

On the baseline questionnaires, we requested information about age; weight and height; smoking status; physical activity; history of diabetes in first - degree relatives; use of postmenopausal hormone therapy; use of oral contraceptives; and personal history of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers.

Some of the situations in which oral contraceptives may be a reasonable alternative are outlined in the chapter Clinical Use of Progestins in Bitches and Queens: A Review in Recent Advances in Small Animal Reproduction (2000), Concannon P.W., England G., Verstegen III J., et al. (Eds.).