The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7217 p433
28 September 2002

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Side effects of EHC not understood

Almost 50 per cent of women who have taken emergency hormonal contraception think that it has at least one unsafe side effect, according to researchers. Dr Peter Knapp and colleagues, University of Leeds, found that 43 per cent of the women in the study thought that EHC increased blood pressure, 80 per cent thought that it was more dangerous to take EHC twice in one year than to take the oral contraceptive pill, and 43 per cent thought that taking EHC at frequent intervals posed a serious risk to their health.