Having a chronic disease doesn't appear to change women's contraceptive use

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Women with chronic diseases generally use contraception at similar rates to women without chronic diseases, according to Australian research. The study found that contraception rates were similar for women with and without chronic conditions, although the one exception was women with autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, who were more likely to use less effective contraception or to not use contraception at all.

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Organisation/s: The University of Newcastle, The University of Sydney

Funder: The research on which this paper is based was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) by the University of Newcastle and The University of Queensland and funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (G1700929). Dr Melissa L. Harris is funded through an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE190101134).

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