Sentences with phrase «use of oral contraceptives»

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.

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

The researchers statistically corrected for factors known to reduce fertility, such as smoking, recent use of oral contraceptives and obesity.

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.

In a recent report, use of oral contraceptives for five or more years has been associated with a 25 % increased risk of developing primary open angle glaucoma (the most prevalent form of the disease).

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.

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

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.

The use of oral contraceptives with estrogen (some anecdotal concern for progestin only contraceptives as well).

Two well - established risk factors for EOC [ie, the use of oral contraceptives (OCs) and parity] have been hypothesized to decrease risk by suppressing ovulation, which has been explained by the «incessant ovulation» hypothesis (5) or related to decreasing gonadotropin concentrations (6 — 8).

Over the past 50 years (1965 - 2014), we estimate that about 400000 endometrial cancers have been prevented in women before the age of 75 years in high - income countries through the use of oral contraceptives, with about 200,000 prevented during the last decade (2005 - 14).»

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.

«more than 20 well - controlled studies have demonstrated the clear risk of premenopausal breast cancer with the use of oral contraceptives.

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

Well a lot of it comes from the use of the oral contraceptive pill by women.

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.

The authors also speculate that the use of oral contraceptives may influence a woman's ability to attract a mate by reducing attractiveness to men, thereby disrupting her ability to compete with normally cycling women for access to mate.

«The ultimate outstanding evolutionary question concerns whether the use of oral contraceptives when making mating decisions can have long - term consequences on the ability of couples to reproduce,» suggests Lummaa.