Women Who Take Low-Dose Combined Oral Contraceptives have Greater Triglycerides to High Density Lipoprotein Ratio than Those Who do not Use

The use of contraceptive methods for family planning has grown over the years among women of reproductive age (15-49 years old). In an exploratory analysis by using the United Nations Population Division database, the prevalence of contraceptive strategies worldwide increased from 55 percent up to 63 percent between 1990 and 2010 [1]. Among the reversible methods, oral contraceptives are presented as the most commonly used strategy for family planning. In Brazil, it is estimated that 27% of women including all social classes use some type of oral Abstract