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STATISTICAL ANALYSTS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES, SECONDARY AMENORRHOEA AND GALACTORRHOEA
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb14218.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 79, Issue 7, pages 654–656, July 1972
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Shearman, R. P. and Smith, I. D. (1972), STATISTICAL ANALYSTS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES, SECONDARY AMENORRHOEA AND GALACTORRHOEA. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 79: 654–656. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb14218.x
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Summary
The association of secondary amenorrhoea with galactorrhoea and a history of oral contraceptive treatment in a series of 230 patients has been analyzed. Ninety-six (4·17 per cent) developed their syndrome after treatment with oral contraceptives. Comparing these observations with the known usage of oral contraceptives in Australia, there is a highly significant (P<0.0l) relationship between the use of oral contraceptives and the subsequent development of amenorrhoea.
Somewhat surprisingly, although amenorrhoea-galactorrhoea is more commonly associated with a history of oral contraceptives than any other factor, such history had no effect upon the proportion of secondary amenorrhoea patients with concurrent galactorrhoea.