J Egypt Public Health Assoc
February 2007
This study was designed to be a house to house survey to fulfill an interview questionnaire and measure blood pressure for 1927 rural inhabitant at "Bany Magdoul" village located at Imbaba district of Giza governorate. The response rate was 96.4%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose And Method: Our objective is to evaluate the effects of the long-term use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) as a method of contraception on bone mineral density (BMD) and bone remodeling. Forty women (21-44 years old) who used DMPA for contraception for <1, 1-2 and >5 years, in addition to 20 age-matched healthy women (nonusers), participated in this study. Lumbar spine BMD (LS-BMD) was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptionmetry.
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