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Neurologic complications of oral contraceptives.

Abstract: The 4 major categories of neurological disease associated with oral contraceptives do not allow for a definite etiologic correlation between the disease and the medication is the conclusion drawn from this study. Approximately 7 million young women take "the pill". Millions have headaches but there is not adquate evidence to support the clinical suspicion that the pill increases the incidence of vascular headache. Pseudotumor cerebri and optic neuritis are 2 categories that naturally come and go without treatment or apparent cause; therefore establishing a relationship between these neurological conditions and contraceptives would have to be based on an overwhelming number of correlated oases. Vascular occlusive disease is the fourth category and because of its disabling potential deserves close investigation. Great caution should be exercised in evaluating the presence of a history of vascular headache hypertension diabetes or vasospastic disease in females before contraceptives are prescribed.