Overview

The Effect of Oral Contraceptive Pills On Eyes

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2016-07-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
Female
Summary
The investigators aimed to evaluate the effect of oral contraceptive pills(OCP) on macula, retinal nerve fiber layer and choroid thickness by using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). The present clinical study is the first research reported in the literature which is investigating the posterior ocular segment changes in women using OCP by using OCT.
Phase:
Phase 4
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Kayseri Education and Research Hospital
Treatments:
Contraceptive Agents
Contraceptives, Oral
Contraceptives, Oral, Combined
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- All the participants in the study group were Caucasian origin and the ages of them
ranged from 18 to 48 in the reproductive period

Exclusion Criteria:

- None of the women in the study was pregnant. Women who reported histories of any
medical problems such as thyroid disorders, hypertension, thromboembolic disease,
diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular events, Cushing disease, positive malignancy,
congenital adrenal hyperplasia, liver disease, psychotic disorders and neither did
they use antidepressants nor steroidal hormone drugs and mood stabilizers (lithium,
valproic acid, cocaine, antiandrogens, and insulin sensitizers, etc) were excluded
from the study. Subjects were also excluded if they used caffeine or tobacco. The
investigators also excluded from the study those women who had ocular surgery, ocular
trauma or any ocular diseases such as glaucoma, cystoid macular edema, macular
degeneration, optic atrophy, intraocular pressure 421 mmHg, cataract, best corrected
visual acuity worse than 20/30, high spherical4± 3 dioptre or cylindrical42 dioptre
refractive errors and uveitis at the time of OCT measurement.