A new study examining outcomes for women on combined pill hormonal birth control claims that those who commence usage as teenagers have a 130% percent increased risk of experiencing depression compared to women who have never taken oral hormonal contraceptives.
The study, published in the Cambridge Journal of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, followed the outcomes of 264,557 women with the median age of first use and discontinuing use of oral contraceptives being 21 and 32 years, respectively.