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'From the entry on ectopic pregnancy at MedlinePlus, a service of the
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
(NIH):
"The "morning after pill" is associated with a 10-fold
increase in risk of this condition [ectopic pregnancy]
when its use fails to prevent pregnancy." '
and:
"[W]e identified five clinical trials of levonorgestrel-only ECPs.3-7
As shown in Table 1, these trials reported a total of 97 intrauterine
pregnancies and one EP [ectopic pregnancy]. The proportion of
pregnancies that were ectopic was thus 1.02% (95% exact CI
0.02%-5.55%). This proportion is consistent with the reported national
rate of 12.4 and 19.7 per 1000 pregnancies in England and Wales and in
the USA, respectively.8,9 Therefore, these trials provide no evidence
to suggest that progestin-only ECPs increase the chance that a
pregnancy will be ectopic. Moreover, because ECPs are so effective at
preventing pregnancy in general, they certainly reduce a woman's
absolute risk of EP."
Budikka
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