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Oral contraceptive failures and body weight: Findings in a large cohort study
  1. Martin Vessey, CBE, MD, FRCOG, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and
  2. Rosemary Painter, D.Phil, Computer Scientist
  1. Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
  1. Correspondence Martin Vessey, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, University Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.

Abstract

This report looks at data from 17 032 women who took part in the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study. Thirty-eight first accidental pregnancies occurred during 6779 woman-years of use of progestogen-only oral contraceptives (0.56 per 100) and 95 first accidental pregnancies occurred during 48 692 woman-years of combined oral contraceptive use (0.20 per 100). Although associations with age and parity were found, there was no evidence of any influence of body weight on the risk of accidental pregnancy with either form of oral contraceptive.

  • accidental pregnancy
  • body weight
  • cohort study
  • oestrogens
  • oral contraception
  • progestogens

https://doi.org/10.1783/147118901101195092

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