Royal College of General Practitioners’ oral contraception study
Initiatives
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To monitor the health of women who had used oral contraceptives.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1968
- Funding
- Royal College of General Practitioners, British Heart Foundation, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Medical Insurance Agency, Medical Research Council, Schering AG (Berlin), Schering Health Care (UK), Searle, and Wyeth-Ayerst International (USA).
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- 25 year follow up
Marker Paper
Beral V, Hermon C, Kay C, Hannaford P, Darby S, Reeves G. Mortality associated with oral contraceptive use: 25 year follow up of cohort of 46000 women from Royal College of General Practitioners’ oral contraception study. BMJ 1999;318:96–100. doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7176.96
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 46,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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