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Oral Contraceptives Increase Lupus Risk
Hormones are believed to play a part in the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) because the women to men with it is nine to one, and the incidence increases after puberty.
A new large, population-based observational study found that the use of oral contraceptives was associated with an increased risk of SLE, particularly among women who recently started taking them. The study was published in the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research (www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/77005015/home).
Dr. Samy Suissa of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology at Jewish General Hospital of McGill University in Montreal led the researchers who obtained data on more than 1.7 million women ages 18-45 from the U.K. General Practice Research Database. The women all had prescriptions for combined oral contraceptives (COCs) containing estrogen and progestogen.
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Hormones are believed to play a part in the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) because the women to men with it is nine to one, and the incidence increases after puberty.
A new large, population-based observational study found that the use of oral contraceptives was associated with an increased risk of SLE, particularly among women who recently started taking them. The study was published in the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research (www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/77005015/home).
Dr. Samy Suissa of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology at Jewish General Hospital of McGill University in Montreal led the researchers who obtained data on more than 1.7 million women ages 18-45 from the U.K. General Practice Research Database. The women all had prescriptions for combined oral contraceptives (COCs) containing estrogen and progestogen.
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