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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2021 Jun 19;104(4):327–336. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2021.06.010

Table II –

Number of bleeding and/or spotting days according to the ulipristal acetate dose released by a copper intrauterine system during a 12-week treatment period

UPA dose Baseline Treatment cycle 1 Treatment cycle 2 Treatment cycle 3

Bleeding and Spotting days - mean (SD)

5 μg/d (n= 8) 6.1 (2.3) 8.0 (3.9) 6.4 (3.9) 6.0 (2.3)
20 μg/d (n=10) 7.0 (2.4) 8.3 (4.6) 6.7 (2.9) 5.8 (2.7)
40 μg/d (n=9) 5.9 (1.8)a 7.0 (2.4) 4.6 (2.9) 3.7 (1.7)a

Bleeding-only days - mean (SD)

5 μg/d (n= 8) 3.6 (2.7) 5.1 (5.1) 3.2 (3.2) 3.0 (2.7)
20 μg/d (n=10) 4.2 (1.0) 4.4 (2.5) 3.1 (3.5) 2.5 (3.1)
40 μg/d (n=9) 3.9 (2.3)b,c 3.7 (1.4) 1.4 (1.5)b 0.9 (1.4)c

Spotting-only days - mean (SD)

5 μg/d (n= 8) 3.2 (0.7) 3.7 (2.1) 3.6 (2.8) 3.4 (1.1)
20 μg/d (n=10) 3.4 (2.2) 4.9 (3.7) 4.0 (1.1) 3.8 (2.1)
40 μg/d (n=9) 2.6 (2.0) 3.8 (2.3) 3.3 (2.4) 2.8 (1.9)

UPA: Ulipristal acetate; SD: Standard deviation

Same letters (a, b, c) indicate a comparison with p < 0.05.

Bleeding and spotting, bleeding-only, and spotting-only days analyzed by a generalized linear mixed model with orthogonal contrasts

Per protocol population includes all participants who completed 12 weeks of intrauterine system use (n=27)