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Contraception



Hormonal contraceptives, younger age, race affect cervicovaginal inflammation



March 17th, 2005

Use of progesterone-based contraceptives, being of younger age, and black race were found to be independently associated with an increase in cervicovaginal inflammatory cells in a Johns Hopkins University study.

"The impact of demographic characteristics, phase of the menstrual cycle, use of hormonal contraceptives, and concomitant lower genital-tract infections on cervicovaginal inflammatory cells was assessed in 967 women, 654 of whom were infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)," wrote K.G. Ghanem and colleagues.

They counted the total number of white blood cells (WBC), polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and monocytes in...


Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-17)

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