Contraceptive options and their associated estrogenic environmental loads: relationships and trade-offs.

This work explores the relationships between a user's choice of a given contraceptive option and the load of steroidal estrogens that can be associated with that choice. Family planning data for the USA served as a basis for the analysis. The results showed that collectively the use of contrace...

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Main Authors: Usman Khan, Jim A Nicell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3966801?pdf=render