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Contraception
WHI director refutes interpretation of oral contraceptives' effects on CVD
January 6th, 2005
The following statement was issued by Barbara Alving, MD, director of the Women's Health Initiative and acting director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: [helv]A Women's Health Initiative (WHI) review of a recent abstract on the effects of oral contraceptive (OC) use on cardiovascular disease has found flaws in both the design and interpretation of the WHI data used in the study. The October [2004] presentation of the abstract at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine - and subsequent media coverage - may have created the impression that OC use is linked...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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