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Contraceptive Agents

Known as: birth control agent, Agents, Contraceptive, Contraceptive drugs 
Chemical substances that prevent or reduce the probability of CONCEPTION.
National Institutes of Health

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Antispermatogenic AgentsContraceptive Agents, FemaleContraceptive DevicesContraceptives, Oral
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Contraceptive methods
Family PlanningFertilityIn BloodSexual sterilization
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Obesity
Editor's Note: This issue of In the Clinic has been updated. More than 30% of U.S. adults are obese (1). Generally defined as a… Expand
Review
2006
Review
2006
Disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001.
CONTEXT Many pregnancies are unintended, particularly in certain population groups. Determining whether unintended pregnancy… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Clinical epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease: Incidence, prevalence, and environmental influences.
  • E. Loftus
  • Gastroenterology
  • 2004
    • Corpus ID: 33319414
Although the incidence and prevalence of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are beginning to stabilize in high-incidence… Expand
Review
2003
Review
2003
Epidemiology of women and depression.
  • R. Kessler
  • Journal of affective disorders
  • 2003
    • Corpus ID: 36437004
BACKGROUND Depression is the leading cause of disease-related disability among women in the world today. Depression is much more… Expand
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Medical-eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
Research and development has led to an increasingly wide choice of contraceptive methods in developed countries. However… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Impact of gender, menstrual cycle phase, and oral contraceptives on the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis.
OBJECTIVE Results from animal and human studies suggest that disregulations of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are… Expand
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Behavior and occurrence of estrogens in municipal sewage treatment plants--I. Investigations in Germany, Canada and Brazil.
The developed method enables the quantification of estrogens in sewage samples down to 1 ng/l and in river water down to 0.5 ng/l… Expand
Review
1981
Review
1981
Uterine leiomyomata: etiology, symptomatology, and management.
1 out of 4-5 women develop uterine leiomyomata, the most common solid pelvic tumors in women. This paper assesses the reports… Expand
Review
1969
Review
1969
Biometry
  • R. Greenberg
  • The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
  • 1969
    • Corpus ID: 215632104
The Textbook of Contraceptive Practice is a current overview of population control. The authors are John Peel, Senior Lecturer in… Expand
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1960
Highly Cited
1960
An Economic Analysis of Fertility
THE inability of demographers to predict western birth rates accurately in the postwar period has had a salutary influence on… Expand
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