This is a clinical analysis of current concerns about the safety of oral contraceptives in relation to cardiovascular disease. It contains six chapters by experts from the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, the United States, and France. Their chapters cover the impact of publicity on use of the pill, the risk of venous thromboembolism, the relationships between the pill and acute myocardial infarction and hemostasis, and the roles of physician education and patient counseling regarding oral contraceptives and venous thromboembolism.
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On the 18th of October 1995, The Committee on Safety of Medicine (CSM) in London issued a letter to all doctors and pharmacists in the UK, which started that oral contraceptives containing desogestrel and gestodene are associated with approximately a two-fold increase in the risk of venous thromboembolism compared with those containing certain other progestogens. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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On the 18th of October 1995, The Committee on Safety of Medicine (CSM) in London issued a letter to all doctors and pharmacists in the UK, which started that oral contraceptives containing desogestrel and gestodene are associated with approximately a two-fold increase in the risk of venous thromboembolism compared with those containing certain other progestogens. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Health Care, Safety of Medicines New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Pharmacology of the Contraceptive Steroids by Joseph W. Goldzieher in Back Matter
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