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PAGE 12 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13,1978 Health Hints • Women who use oral con­ traceptives tend to have higher blood pressure and * con centrations of sagar and fat in their blood than do women who have never taken the Pill or who have stopped using it And current Pill users tend to have abnormal insulin response, resembling those of diabetics Leon 0 Ostrander. Jr.. M I) . presented these findings at the NrnVrican Heart association's fittv first scientific sessions in fi.tilas recently He said that women currently using oral contraceptives have higher mean levels of eight different physiological variables than nonusers or former users All the variables have been im plicated as risk factors in heart and bljH>d vessel disease, though none of the women had card iovascu lar d isease o r diabetes that could he blamed on the Pill These effects are apparently reversible, since former Pil l users had almost indenticaI levels of each variable as women who have never used oral contraceptives w* Pie research is part of the Tecumseh Michigan' Health studv which began in 1959 to examine the entire population of this small 11970 population 7.12K' town in southeastern Michigan It is a prospective siud\ in which all the par ticipants are' followed throughout.life in an attempt to isolate the elements in fheir lives that promote either health or disease About 14.000 persons have participated since the stud> began - In tins segment of the long- term research. 270women were randomK selected from a group that had been examined on three occasions between 1959 and I9fl9 and reexamined in 7 7 The eight variables measured in the stud\ were _-bL.»irl gluc ose . plasma insulin serum cholestoral. serum t r; g 1 > cer ide systolic and Jiastolic blood pressures, and contours of glucose and insulin which show the pattern • i t • ise and tall of these values 'hit a two hour period In "wr\ category values were higher for the group currently akmg oral contraceptives l ir Mstrander said these changes were apparently ca'iM ; «>nly by the use of oral contraceptives, not by the women's physical condition or use of other medications But he emphasized that women who ha\e stopped taking the Pil l apparentlv return to the same lower risk status of women who have never.used it l ir Ostrander is professor of Internal Medicine in the Medical school and research Scient ist in the Department of Kpidemiologv of the 1 Diversi ty oi Michigan * School of Public Health His co author is Donald K I.amphiear senior research associate m epidemiology Generous Husband "I believe my husband is the most generous man on earth How's that?" 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