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Effect of BMI and body weight on pregnancy rates with LNG as emergency contraception: analysis of four WHO HRP studies

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effect of increased body weight and body mass index (BMI) on pregnancy rates with levonorgestrel (LNG) 1.5 mg used as emergency contraception (EC). METHODS: The study reviewed data from 6873 women in four WHO-HRP randomized trials on EC conducted between 1993 and 2010. Par...

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Autores principales: Festin, Mario Philip R., Peregoudov, Alexandre, Seuc, Armando, Kiarie, James, Temmerman, Marleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27527670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2016.08.001