Immunoglobulins and hormonal contraception

Fassati, P.; Motejlová, A.; Oktábcová, M.; Spízek, J.; Fassati, M.

Ceskoslovenska Gynekologie 48(7): 475-479

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0374-6852
PMID: 6627427
Document Number: 218766
The authors investigated a group of 58 women who took oral contraceptives (OCs) for at least 1 year and a control group of 35 healthy women. In both groups, a long series of serological and clinical biochemical tests were made. As compared with the control group, the women taking OCs had slightly raised immunoglobulin IgG, IgA, IgM, and IgD levels and substantially lower (pathological) values of the albumin turbidity reaction (ATR). The rise in immunoglobulin levels, contrary to the reduction in ATR values, was not statistically significant. It may thus be stated that in the early diagnosis of early liver damage in subjects using OCs, attention must be focused on sensitive biochemical tests, in particular, on the biochemistry of proteins. (author's modified)

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