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    2008 - 12.21

    Women with mild acne can benefit from the use of the pill low dose of ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen) and drospirenone (an androgen) is what a multi center study conducted in Denver and published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. Scholars have followed 536 women with acne between the ages of 14 and 45 years. In a random or took contraceptives or placebo: have completed 6 months of therapy 211 women using the contraceptive and 192 patients on placebo.
    46% of women who have taken the contraceptive have shown a reduction in the number of injuries acne iche while the same improvement was recorded in only 31% of women who took placebo. Women treated with the contraceptives have not reported any type of event or embolic thrombus abnormalities in normal laboratory testing within 6 months of trial. This association progesterone is estro-shows certainly valid in the control of acne vulgaris.
     

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