Contraception and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Latina Women With Prior Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Article Abstract:

Hispanic women with a history of gestational diabetes should not take progestin-only birth control pills. Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Researchers followed 443 Latina women with prior gestational diabetes who began using a non-hormonal form of contraception, a low-dose estrogen-progestin combination or a progestin-only pill. Twenty-six percent if the women on a progestin-only pill developed type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, compared to 10% of the women using estrogen-progestin and 9% of the women using non-hormonal contraception.

Complications and side effects, Risk factors, Type 2 diabetes, Oral contraceptives, Progestational hormones

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Climate, Traffic-Related Air Pollutants, and Asthma Prevalence in Middle-School Children in Taiwan

Article Abstract:

The author examines the relationship between air pollution and asthma in Taiwanese middle-school children. Topics include definitions of asthma, study standards, and climate factors.

United States, Health aspects, Statistical Data Included, Research, Taiwan, Environmental aspects, Asthma in children, Childhood asthma, Air pollution, Smog

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