Double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled study on the effects of the monophasic oral contraceptive containing 30 micrograms ethinyl estradiol and 2.00 mg dienogest on the hemostatic system

Forty healthy female volunteers aged between 19 and 35 years (27.3 +/- 4.1 years) with normal menstrual cycles were included in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to investigate the influence on the hemostatic system of an oral contraceptive containing 30 micrograms ethinyl estradiol in combination with 2.00 mg dienogest, which is a 19-norprogestin without a 17 alpha-ethinyl group. At baseline and during one treatment cycle, 12 hemostatic parameters were measured on cycle days 7, 14, and 21. The hemostatic parameters were categorized as either procoagulatory, anticoagulatory and profibrinolytic, or antifibrinolytic and indicative of fibrin turnover. Differences between placebo and 30 micrograms ethinyl estradiol and 2.00 mg dienogest of plasma levels of hemostatic parameters on cycle days 21 of the precycle and treatment cycle were chosen as target variables. Prothrombin fragment 1 + 2 (F 1 + 2) was chosen as the main target variable. Equivalence of F 1 + 2 between placebo and active treatment was noted. Among the procoagulatory factors, only factor VII activity was found to be increased over placebo in the active treatment group, but decreased in the placebo group. Protein C activity increased during the treatment with 30 micrograms ethinyl estradiol and 2.00 mg dienogest, and was higher than that of the placebo group in which this parameter decreased during the treatment cycle. There was a corresponding increase in fibrinolytic activity being reflected by higher plasminogen levels in the active treatment group in comparison with placebo. An increase was noted for the fibrinolytic parameter D-dimer. Apart from isolated measurements, the parameters remained in their respective normal ranges. The data combine to suggest that 30 micrograms ethinyl estradiol and 2.00 mg dienogest has a balanced effect on the hemostatic system stimulating both procoagulatory and fibrinolytic activity.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1997

Erschienen:

1997

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:56

Enthalten in:

Contraception - 56(1997), 2 vom: 22. Aug., Seite 67-75

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Spona, J [VerfasserIn]
Feichtinger, W [VerfasserIn]
Kindermann, C [VerfasserIn]
Schneider, B [VerfasserIn]
Mellinger, U [VerfasserIn]
Walter, F [VerfasserIn]
Moore, C [VerfasserIn]
Gräser, T [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

423D2T571U
46M3EV8HHE
6PG9VR430D
9000-94-6
9001-25-6
9001-26-7
9001-31-4
9001-32-5
9001-91-6
Antithrombin III
Biology
Blood Coagulation Effects
Case Control Studies
Clinical Research
Clinical Trial
Clinical Trials
Contraception
Contraceptive Methods--side effects
Contraceptives, Oral
Developed Countries
Dienogest
EC 3.4.21.68
Ethinyl Estradiol
Europe
Factor VII
Family Planning
Fibrin
Fibrinogen
Germany
Hematological Effects
Hemic System
Journal Article
Nandrolone
Oral Contraceptives, Combined--side effects
Oral Contraceptives--side effects
Peptide Fragments
Physiology
Placebos
Plasminogen
Protein C
Prothrombin
Prothrombin fragment 1.2
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Methodology
Research Report
Studies
Tissue Plasminogen Activator
Western Europe

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 31.10.1997

Date Revised 26.08.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM092668844