An investigation of the incidence of cardiac murmurs in young health women.
Healthy women students who asked for oral contraceptives were carefully examined to ascertain whether they had a cardiac murmur. Over 52 per cent of the 509 women examined had such a murmur and of these murmurs 3-4 per cent were thought to have an organic origin.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D005260:Female; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans
D003276:Contraceptives, Oral