Sentences with phrase «use of oral contraceptives for»

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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).

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.

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.

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.

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 %.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For example, 35 % of satisfied oral contraceptive users have skipped at least one pill in the past three months, compared with 48 % of dissatisfied users.8 Consistent contraceptive use helps women and couples prevent unwanted pregnancies and plan and space those they do want.

Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3