International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 03/jun/2022;35(4):511-3.

Oral Contraception: Beyond What Meets the Eye. Sorry, the Ovaries!

Biljana Parapid , Snežana Rakić

DOI: 10.36660/ijcs.20220085

The concept of oral contraception, historically, was supposed to enable control of unwanted pregnancies and facilitate family planning for women of reproductive age in an elegant fashion for everyone needing it. However, the influence of different prescriptions on women’s health during active use, as well as later on in life – beyond the quintessential fear of thromboses lay women worldwide have – has not been studied extensively or meticulously, despite the widespread use. Also, with some countries recently starting to embrace the over-the-counter concept for oral contraceptives in addition to the mechanical ones, a mandatory visit to a physician to get a personalized prescription will become a growing phenomenon and its public health consequences are unforeseeable, evidently.

In the current issue of IJCS, we had the pleasure of reading a paper by Gomes et al, who presented their original article with results of a cross-over study of the influence of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on the lipid and inflammatory profile of women using combined oral contraceptives (COC) that showed a beneficial effect to the latter, but not the former.

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