%0 Journal Article %T Perfil lip¨ªdico y alteraciones menstruales en mujeres que usan el anticonceptivo inyectable combinado mesigyna %A Su¨¢rez Espinosa %A Ileana %A Vald¨¦s Carrillo %A Ram¨®n %J Revista de Ciencias M£¿£¿dicas de Pinar del R£¿-o %D 2004 %I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X hormonal contraception with long-acting hormonal injections represrnt an established alternative. this study was aimed at knowing the disturbances that mently-birth control injection combined with mesigyna scherring ag provoked over lipid metabolism and menstrual pattern, to investigate it, 75 non-pregnant women who wished to control their fertility were included in the study. total cholesterol, c-hdl, c-ldl, triglycerides and ipa were determined showing that c-hdl had a slightly increase-trend from the second year of the use of aics mesigyna, the lpa increased in the 16% of the total of patients. menstrual pattern had regularity in its cycle-81.3 % of the total of women at the end of the study- concluding that the use of aics mesigyna produces disturbances on menstrual cycle invariably, demonstrating its antiatherogenic role due to its metabolic effects over lipid profile. %K contraception %K birth control %K lipids %K lipoproteins. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-31942004000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en