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HelpDesk answers: do hormonal contraceptives lead to weight gain?
Maria Albright1, Saira Rani1, Thomas Gavagan1
1University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, IL, USA.
Abstract:
It depends. Weight doesn't appear to increase with combined oral contraception (OC) compared with nonhormonal contraception, but percent body fat may increase slightly. Depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate injection (DMPA) users experience weight gain compared with OC and nonhormonal contraception (NH) users.
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