The effect of combined oral contraception on testosterone levels in healthy women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Zimmerman, MJC Eijkemans… - Human reproduction …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) reduce levels of androgen, especially testosterone
(T… total T, free T and SHBG in healthy women and to evaluate differences between the various …

Health benefits of oral contraceptives

JT Jensen, L Speroff - Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America, 2000 - Elsevier
… , associated with oral contraceptive use. In a 1995 study at Brown University, many women
expressed the belief that oral contraceptives increased the risk for serious health problems …

Pro/antioxidant status in young healthy women using oral contraceptives

K Kowalska, H Milnerowicz - Environmental toxicology and pharmacology, 2016 - Elsevier
… of oral contraceptives (OCs) on pro/antioxidant status in the blood of healthy women aged …
OCs on pro/antioxidant balance in young healthy women. This was achieved by attaining the …

Short note: oral contraceptives and sleep in depressed and healthy women

RS Burdick, R Hoffmann, R Armitage - Sleep, 2002 - academic.oup.com
healthy women in our earlier studies were using OCs.Alternatively, OCs may contribute to
risk for depression, since 5%-30% of its users do show depressive symptoms,9 although sleep …

Resistance to activated protein C in healthy women taking oral contraceptives

O Olivieri, S Friso, F Manzato, A Guella… - British Journal of …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
… sensitivity in 50 healthy women taking OC and in 50 healthy controls, … Two APCresistant
women without the Leiden mutation … We conclude that acquired factors, ie oral contraceptives, …

[HTML][HTML] Oral contraceptives impair complex emotion recognition in healthy women

R Pahnke, A Mau-Moeller, M Junge, J Wendt… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite the widespread use of oral contraceptives (OCs), … women who were using OCs (n =
42) would be less accurate in the recognition of complex emotional expressions than women

The Transnational Study on Oral Contraceptives and the Health of Young Women. Methods, results, new analyses and the healthy user effect

MA Lewis - Human Reproduction Update, 1999 - academic.oup.com
The results of the Transnational study on Oral Contraceptives and the Health of Young
Women studies are reviewed, potential biases shown, and new analyses are presented. The …

Ovarian volume in gynecologically healthy women using no contraception, or using IUD or oral contraception

JT Christensen, J Boldsen… - Acta obstetricia et …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
oral contraception. The ovarian volumes did not change throughout the riienstrual cycle
in women using oral contraception. In women not using oral contraception the largest ovary …

Benefits and risks of oral contraceptives

K Sherif - American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 1999 - Elsevier
… The previously mentioned 1995 World Health Organization study 12 reported that among
women in whom ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke developed, 13% of European cases and 8% …

Influence of oral contraceptives on endogenous pain control in healthy women

T Rezaii, M Ernberg - Experimental brain research, 2010 - Springer
… of oral contraceptives (OC) on diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) in healthy women. …
This study in healthy women shows that the endogenous pain modulation of experimentally …