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Morning-after pills feared by Shanghai women
(eastday.com)
Updated: 2004-11-18 08:20

Though a recent US survey said oral contraceptive pills can protect women from cardiac diseases and some female cancers, Shanghai medical experts said they still have a lot of work to do to educate Chinese women about the medicines and wipe their worries away.

Dr rahi Victory from Wayne State University and co-workers examined the medical records of more than 160,000 women and found oral contraceptive users are 8 percent less likely to suffer heart attacks and high cholesterol and have a 20 percent lower risk of contracting ovarian or endometrial cancer, compared with non-users.

The results of his study were published in a recent edition of Nature.

While about 20 percent of Western women take contraceptive pills, only 2.2 percent of women in Shanghai use them.

Women under the age of 35 are more likely to be on the pill than older women, noted Chen Junling of the Shanghai Family Planning Instruction Institute.

"Many of them still don't understand the medicine and are afraid of side effects. Intrauterine contraceptive devices are most popular among women in middle age, while young women prefer condoms."

Chen said doctors have begun to give direction on contraceptive methods and oral contraceptive use during outpatient service.



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