Santiago Palacios, Gabriela Ayala, Gemarilis González, Can L Badilla-Apuy, Jeannette Marchena, Katia Martínez, Desireé Mostajo, María S Vernaza, Alejandro Paradas, Luis Hernández, David Vásquez-Awad, Cuauhtémoc Celis-González, Nilson Roberto de Melo
Background: In recent years, new combined oral contraceptives (COCs) have become available, representing an advance in terms of individualization and compliance by users. Objective: To provide recommendations regarding COCs: formulations, use, efficacy, benefits and safety. Method: For these recommendations, we have used the modified Delphi methodology and carried out a systematic review of studies found in the literature and reviews performed in humans, published in English and Spanish in Pubmed, Medline and advanced medicine and computer networks until the year 2021, using the combination of terms: 'oral contraceptives', 'estroprogestins' and 'combined oral contraceptives'...
December 2023: Gynecological Endocrinology