Mortality associated with oral contraceptive use: 25 year follow up of cohort of 46 000 women from Royal College of General Practitioners' oral contraception study

BMJ

Volumn 318, Issue 7176, 1999, Pages 96-100

  Beral, Valerie ^a   Hermon, Carol ^a   Kay, Clifford ^b   Hannaford, Philip ^b   Darby, Sarah ^a   Reeves, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OVARY CANCER; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BIOLOGY; CANCER; CAUSES OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR EFFECTS; CERVICAL CANCER; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EUROPE; EXCESS MORTALITY; FAMILY PLANNING; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NORTHERN EUROPE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PARITY; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033537273     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7176.96     Document Type: Article

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