[Hypertension and oral contraceptive therapy (author's transl)]

Twenty-nine patients, either taking oral contraceptives or having stopped since less than six months, were referred for hypertension. Three conditions have to be satisfied in order to incriminate with certainty the responsibility of oral contraceptives inducing hypertension : normal blood pressure before therapy (included pregnancies), normalization of blood pressure in a delay of three months at most after the discontinuation, no other etiology of hypertension. The small number of hypertensions really induced by oral contraceptives is opposed with the great number of hypertension (essential or not) revealed by oral contraceptives.