Journal article
ALTERED PLASMA-LIPIDS ASSOCIATED WITH ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE OR ŒSTROGEN CONSUMPTION: The Lipid Research Clinic Program
The Lancet (British edition), Vol.310(8027), pp.11-14
1977
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(77)90005-8
Abstract
Mean plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were measured in White female users and non-users of oral contraceptives and œstrogens in 10 diverse, demographically defined North American populations. About 50% of the younger women (20-24 years old) were taking oral contraceptives. In these women mean triglyceride concentrations were up to 48% higher and mean cholesterol concentrations were about 5% higher than in non-users. The 95% percentile of the total lipid distribution among non-users was used to define hyperlipidæmia. In young women on oral contraceptives hypercholesterolæmia was up to three times more common and hypertriglyceridæmia was up to five times more common than in non-users. 37% of older women (50-54 years) (presumably intramenopausal and postmenopausal) were hormone users, and in this group there were small, inconsistent alterations in plasma-triglyceride and a modest but consistent reduction in mean cholesterol concentration.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- ALTERED PLASMA-LIPIDS ASSOCIATED WITH ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE OR ŒSTROGEN CONSUMPTION: The Lipid Research Clinic Program
- Creators
- Robert B Wallace - University of IowaJoanne Hoover - University of WashingtonDale Sandler - National Heart Lung and Blood InstituteBasilM Rifkind - National Heart Lung and Blood InstituteHermanA Tyroler - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Lancet (British edition), Vol.310(8027), pp.11-14
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0140-6736(77)90005-8
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
- eISSN
- 1474-547X
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1977
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984364406502771
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