Study to Investigate the Effect of Missed Pills on Follicular Development in Two Application Regimens of SH T 00186 D

Phase 2 Completed 105 enrolled Bayer

RandomizedParallel-groupTriple-blindTreatment

Summary

In this study a comparison was made on the influence of missing pills on follicular ripening. By missing a given number of pills, an effect on "contraceptive robustness" of the two investigated contraceptive pills was measured by ultrasound comparison of follicular size and other parameters which indicate how far ovulation might be.

Timeline

Start: 2004-05
Primary completion: 2005-02
Completion: 2005-02

Publications

Results Anttila L, Neunteufel W, Petraglia F, Marr J, Kunz M. Cycle control and bleeding pattern of a 24/4 regimen of drospirenone 3 mg/ethinylestradiol 20 mug compared with a 21/7 regimen of desogestrel 150 mug/ethinylestradiol 20 mug: a pooled analysis. Clin Drug Investig. 2011;31(8):519-525. doi: 10.2165/11590260-000000000-00000.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	drospirenone	Unknown	3 mg	Oral
Subject	ethinyl estradiol	Small molecule	0.02 mg	Oral

Indications

No indication recorded.