Table 2.
Hormonal contraception use in the nested case-control study of depression, care register for health care and register of primary health care visits. Cases, N = 23,480; controls, N = 93,880
| HC use = one redeemed prescription | HC use = two redeemed prescriptions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Controls | Cases | Controls | |||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| HC use | ||||||||
| No HC | 16,652 | 70.9 | 63,682 | 67.8 | 19,150 | 81.6 | 74,245 | 79.1 |
| Current HC | 6828 | 29.1 | 30,198 | 32.2 | 4330 | 18.4 | 19,635 | 20.9 |
| Combined hormonal contraception | 4762 | 20.3 | 22,866 | 24.4 | 3148 | 13.4 | 15,264 | 16.3 |
| Ethinylestradiol containing | 3608 | 15.4 | 17,505 | 18.6 | 2345 | 10.0 | 11,364 | 12.1 |
| Estradiol containing | 1154 | 4.9 | 5361 | 5.7 | 803 | 3.3 | 3900 | 4.2 |
| Progestin-only | 2066 | 8.8 | 7332 | 7.8 | 1182 | 5.0 | 4371 | 4.7 |
| Combined hormonal contraceptives (ATC code) | ||||||||
| Levonorgestrel and ethinylestradiol (G03AA07) | 91 | 0.4 | 400 | 0.4 | 49 | 0.2 | 243 | 0.3 |
| Desogestrel and ethinylestradiol (G03AA09) | 459 | 2.0 | 2329 | 2.5 | 264 | 1.1 | 1331 | 1.4 |
| Gestodene and ethinylestradiol (G03AA10) | 678 | 2.9 | 3622 | 3.9 | 431 | 1.8 | 2299 | 2.4 |
| Drospirenone and ethinylestradiol (G03AA12) | 1747 | 7.4 | 8645 | 9.2 | 1082 | 4.6 | 5335 | 5.7 |
| Norelgestromin and ethinylestradiol patch (G03AA13) | 105 | 0.4 | 297 | 0.3 | 75 | 0.3 | 212 | 0.2 |
| Nomegestrol and estradiol (G03AA14) | 395 | 1.7 | 2165 | 2.3 | 228 | 1.0 | 1279 | 1.4 |
| Dienogest and ethinylestradiol (G03AA16) | 106 | 0.5 | 353 | 0.4 | 59 | 0.3 | 205 | 0.2 |
| Dienogest and estradiol-valerate (G03AB08) | 186 | 0.8 | 836 | 0.9 | 124 | 0.5 | 486 | 0.5 |
| Etonogestrel and ethinylestradiol vaginal ring (G02BB01) | 484 | 2.1 | 2052 | 2.2 | 294 | 1.3 | 1374 | 1.5 |
| Progestin-only oral contraceptives | ||||||||
| Norethisterone (G03AC01) | 184 | 0.8 | 618 | 0.7 | 104 | 0.4 | 355 | 0.4 |
| Levonorgestrel (G03AC03) | 89 | 0.4 | 303 | 0.3 | 37 | 0.2 | 117 | 0.1 |
| Desogestrel (G03AC09) | 1827 | 7.8 | 6541 | 7.0 | 1022 | 4.4 | 3860 | 4.1 |
| Antiandrogen and estrogen | ||||||||
| Cyproterone and estrogen (G03HB01) | 630 | 2.7 | 2684 | 2.9 | 453 | 1.9 | 2120 | 2.3 |