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Re: ortho-evra bc patch From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Mon Apr 22 18:26:30 2002 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: ??? Economic Losses from a Malpractice Suit ???" Previous message: Zach Newton: "Re: Serm + estrogen" In reply to: JSBowpat@aol.com: "Re: ortho-evra bc patch" just a line of thought - not based on company data but prolly a dilutional effect relating dosing to body surface area - the greater the body surface area - the greater the dilution - eventually the efficacy is reduced below a critical level. just my opinion - i could be wrong. art At Mon, 22 Apr 2002, JSBowpat@aol.com wrote: > >The question regarding the reduced contraceptive efficacy and the patch was >posed to the Ortho rep in our office not too long ago. He indicated that >similar findings have been found with OCPs, but is still a highly effective >method. At a recent conference, J.K. Williams out of USF (where they did >phase 3 trials) related that a review of the data showed 15 failures with the >patch out of a number I can't recall, but it was in the thousands. Most of >those failures involved women over 200 lbs. He also related that for >teenagers, this was a particularly effective form of birth control, having >only to put it on once a week, and that in the trials, they never had any >problem with the patch falling off, and that they tested in women doing >regular aerobic exercise, where they sweat a lot. > >Judith E. Bowers DO >Susan A. Paterson CNM >Bay City MI -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: ??? Economic Losses from a Malpractice Suit ???" Previous message: Zach Newton: "Re: Serm + estrogen" In reply to: JSBowpat@aol.com: "Re: ortho-evra bc patch"

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