Influencia de los anticonceptivos hormonales sobre el comportamiento del perfil lipídico en usuarias de centros de salud M.S.P y clínica Paurcarbamba. Cuenca 1997-1998

Abstract

About a third of women of childbearing age in the country used some form of contraception, including hormonal these occupy an important position. However much controversy has created its use, especially for the role that certain authors assign him as a causal factor in the alterations of the lipid profile, with all the risks that this alteration causes, including cardiovascular disease. A prospective study was performed in 144 women of childbearing age, users of the health center No.3 [MSP] and Paucarbamba Clinic, dividing them into two groups according to whether or not they use hormonal contraceptives. Over nine months, the behavior of lipid profile values ​​in the two groups was studied for possible hormonal alterations that occur. He made the comparison, was observed in the group exhibited a tendency to increase the values ​​of lipids in a slightly higher relative to the group not exposed form, however it could not be considered a contraceptive hormones as modifiers, by themselves , lipid profile, but as part of a multifactorial process in which possibly involved factors like genetics, environment and other