Publications by authors named "Joergen Jespersen"
Anticoagulant control facilities are being overwhelmed by requests for monitoring and large numbers of patients are not therefore receiving treatment. Procedures designed for point-of-care testing have therefore been developed, the most popular being the CoaguChek. The need for external quality assessment (EQA) of monitors used by patients in self-management has been stressed in a European Commission (EC) Directive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhile the benefits of progestins in hormonal replacement therapy are well recognized as far as endometrial protection is concerned the data on breast tissue and the cardiovascular system are contentious. Following the Women's Health Initiative study, the Million Women Study and The Women's International Study of Long-duration (O)estrogen after Menopause the question can be raised: When dealing with optimal hormonal therapy after the menopause, is the progestin component accepted here on sufferance or is it desired? The answer is partly made up by the fact that the recent epidemiological data may have been not only wrongly translated in relation to the clinical settings, but also to the whole class of therapies. The various progestins available for hormonal therapy exert different partial effects at cellular level according to the biochemical composition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the impact on lipid and carbohydrate variables of a combined one-third ethinyl estradiol (EE)/levonorgestrel (LNG) dose reduction in oral contraceptives.
Methods: In an open-label, randomized study, a dose-reduced oral contraceptive containing 20 microg EE and 100 microg LNG (20 EE/100 LNG) was compared with a reference preparation containing 30 microg EE and 150 microg LNG (30 EE/150 LNG). One-year data from 48 volunteers were obtained.