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Increased link found between worsening seizures and women taking estrogen.(Brief Article)
2003 JAN 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New research draws a link between women taking estrogen-containing compounds, such as oral contraceptives, and worsening or more frequent epileptic seizures. This could have implications on what types of contraceptives doctors prescribe for women who suffer from epilepsy.
"While not conclusive, these studies show that a link can be implicated between estrogen intake and worsening epilepsy," said Dr. Pavel Klein, associate professor of neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center. "If we have patients with epilepsy, we should certainly be studying if epilepsy is sensitive to hormones, and if so, we've got to be cautious in using estrogen-containing oral contraceptives."
Klein, the lead researcher of this study, evaluated 183 women with epilepsy between the ages of 17 and 55, roughly half of whom had never used oral contraceptives. Among those who did, the duration of usage ranged from 2 months to 14 years. Approximately 20% of women in the study had worsening of seizures ...
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