[Female constitution and tolerance of pills (author's transl)]

In a retrospective study on 526 patients in a family-planning clinic the significance of physical constitution type and pill-tolerance was examined. If only one type of pill was administered statistically significant differences in the tolerance were not evident. When several types of pills were tried because of undesirable side-effects of a single pill a significantly higher tolerance of pills with a balanced hormone-composition could be demonstrated. The latter kind of pills was better tolerated by students than by salaried employees. This could be explained by an increased readiness for family-planning among undergraduate students. A correlation between physical constitution and pill tolerance could not be found in this statistical analysis and the widespread use of this criterion is questioned by the authors.