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Study findings reiterate Pill's safety for non-smokers.
2003 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The latest findings from a U.K. study established 35 years ago to assess the health outcomes for women using the contraceptive pill during the 1970s and 1980s underscore the safety of oral contraceptives when used by women who don't smoke.
The key finding from the study, published in the July 18, 2003, issue of the Lancet, highlights no increased risk of death from any cause (except cervical cancer) for non-smoking pill users; however among heavy smokers the study findings suggest a moderate increase in the risk of death from ischemic heart disease in women who used the contraceptive pill compared with non-smoking pill users.
As part of the Oxford Family Planning Association study, Martin Vessey from the Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, U.K., and colleagues examined death associated with oral contraceptive use and cigarette smoking - issues of public health importance because both use of such contraceptives and smoking are common in women of childbearing age.
Around 17,000 women who were aged 25-39 years between 1968 and 1974 and who used oral contraceptives, a diaphragm, or an intrauterine device took part in the study.
Follow-up data were available up to the end of 2000 by which time 889 women had died. As expected, an increase in death from cervical cancer among women who had ever used the oral contraceptive pill was more than counter-balanced by a reduction in risk of death from other uterine cancers and ovarian cancer.
There was no overall increased risk of death from all causes considered ...
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