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Article: Hormonal contraception and diabetes: Select carefully
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- Drug Topics
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- July 8, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Medical Economics Inc. Jul 8, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Women who have had gestational diabetes during a previous pregnancy or who have a family history of diabetes should not take certain hormone contraceptives, some medical researchers maintain. However, that may not hold true in every case.
"Unfortunately, many women who have diabetes have been told that they cannot use certain birth control methods, such as oral contraceptives, when that may not be true," contended Siri Linda Kjos, M.D., of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, speaking at the recent American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting in San Francisco.
Rather, research conducted by Kjos and co-workers at USC showed that women with diabetes or those who had ...