Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Birth Control and Menopause
- Benefits of birth control
- Regulation of menses
- Decrease in dysmenorrhea/menorrhagia
- Decrease in acne
- Decrease in ectopic pregnancy
- Decrease in pelvic infections
- Decrease in endometrial and ovarian cancer
- Problems with birth control
- Compliance (daily dosing)
- Increase coagulability (DVT/PE)
- Smokers > 35 years old
- Migraines with aura
- HTN, elevated triglycerides
- GI/nausea
- Mood changes, depression
- Weight gain
- DES
- Clear cell adenocarcinoma
- Malformations of genitalia, cervix, vaginal wall
- Menopause symptoms
- Hirsutism (relative increase of androgens)
- Hot flashes
- Atrophy of the vagina
- Osteoporosis
- Coronary artery disease