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Originally posted by 33girl
The risk is going up because women aren't using condoms, not because of the hormones. I never heard anything so ridiculous.
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From the article:
"This holds true even when behavior and other factors are taken into account, the research team at the National Institutes of Health (news - web sites), University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found.
More study is needed, but it is possible that Depo-Provera itself causes a susceptibility to STDs, said Charles Morrison of Family Health International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who led the study.
"We did adjust for differences in condom use, differences in multiple partners, differences in the number of sexual coital acts," Morrison said in a telephone interview. " (Emphasis added.)
This was only a couple of paragraphs down, so it was easy to find. They have reason to think it's not so ridiculous.
I'd like to see a confirmatory study before anyone takes this as gospel. But the study wasn't done by some hick from the sticks: JHU usually has their act together on evaluating their data.
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