Oral contraceptive use and mortality

ABC Radio National Health Report, Monday 2 February 2015 5:53PM

Researchers from Boston have followed 120,000 female nurses for around 40 years, looking at their health and wellbeing, including their contraception and comparing that to cause and age at death. They wanted to find out whether oral contraceptive use is associated with total and cause specific mortality.

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